4th Circuit Affirms Denial Of Sanitation Board’s Request For Attorney Fees

(April 20, 2020, 3:39 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 9 upheld a ruling denying a sanitation board’s request of attorney fees under the Clean Water Act’s fee-shifting provision, holding that the appellant was not a prevailing party because its lawsuit did not spur a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Sanitary Board of Charleston, W.Va. v. Andrew Wheeler, et al., No. 18-2385, 4th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 11235)....