Energy Company Can’t Overturn Attorney’s Fee Award 
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Published: April 20, 2011
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Attorneys, Judge James A. Wynn Jr.
The 4th Circuit refuses to overturn an award of attorney’s fees to plaintiff environmental groups on defendant energy company’s claim that a fee award was not justified for the district court order that forced the energy company to submit to administrative evaluations by the North Carolina state regulators who administer the Clean Air Act
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