Comments on: Making Clean Water Act legal fees two-way https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/03/making-clean-water-act-legal-fees-two-way/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:38:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: great unknown https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/03/making-clean-water-act-legal-fees-two-way/comment-page-1/#comment-344709 Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:38:08 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=63707#comment-344709 This, hopefully, would be an opening wedge. Full two-way loser pays in government-involved lawsuits would eviscerate a major obstruction tactic of nuisance lawsuits.

I can dream – but don’t see it happening – of this extending into the civil litigation arena.

And taken to the logical extreme, if e.g., SCOTUS overturns the injunctions against the federal restriction on immigration recently declared by executive order, the people filing the suits, including several states, should be liable for legal fees.

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