5th Circuit Orders Judge To Provide Basis For Clean Water Act Ruling

Mealey's (November 10, 2016, 10:15 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Texas was ordered on Nov. 7 to rewrite a decision awarding summary judgment to defendants accused of violating the Clean Water Act (CWA), after a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that the eight-page opinion was “bereft of citations to record evidence” and that it “provides this court with virtually no guidance as to how the court applied the facts to the law” (United States of America v. Thomas E. Lipar, et al., No. 15-20625, 5th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 20095)....