In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Before Bauer, Cudahy and Flaum, Circuit Judges. Flaum, Circuit Judge. 1251 et seq.
Hallmark now appeals the denial of attorney's fees.
For the reasons stated herein, we remand. In 1988, Hallmark purchased a plot of land known as Area B, a natural topographical depression situated in the middle of the Swift Research Farm in Frankfort, Illinois. In 1989, Hallmark began a construction project on Area B that involved filling some parts of the depression. It is a violation of the CWA to discharge pollutants into an area identified as a wetland without a permit or some form of mitigation. Therefore, in 1990, Hallmark hired Planning Resources, Inc.