RCRA Citizen Suits and Restitution: The Eighth Circuit's Full Cort Press Strangles Equity's Traditional Remedial Play

Authors

David A. VanDyke

Abstract

Congress creates a federal right of action for private citizens in two ways. First, Congress can expressly grant this right in the statute's language. Second, Congress can implicitly create a right of action. In Cort v. Ash, the Supreme Court set forth a method of analyzing a statute to determine whether Congress implied a private right of action. This Note will address Furrer v. Brown, a recent decision highlighting the Eighth Circuit's confusion in the distinction between finding an implicit right of action and determining the available remedies for an existing right of action.

Recommended Citation

David A. VanDyke, RCRA Citizen Suits and Restitution: The Eighth Circuit's Full Cort Press Strangles Equity's Traditional Remedial Play, 61 Mo. L. Rev. (1996)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol61/iss2/6