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Property Damage
After decades of widespread illegal sewer overflows and defendants utilizing thousands of residents’ homes as de facto storage for defendants’ water and sewage overflows, Sierra Club and Marilyn Wall filed a Clean Water Act citizen enforcement action to fix the system and end the law violations. The federal court found that, despite decades of talking with the US EPA and the Justice Department, it was not until the efforts of the citizen plaintiffs that positive solutions began to emerge. The efforts of the citizen plaintiffs led to the withdrawal and replacement of an illusory decree and replacement of that decree with two broader decrees that: (a) required elimination of all illegal sewer overflows; and (b) included a first of its kind Water/Sewer-in-Basement Program to compensate homeowners for property damage resulting from backups of water and sewage into their homes. The attorney fees order of the trial court led to the defendants’ appeal to the Sixth Circuit and the precedent-setting decision on attorney fees and costs.

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