Law's Victor Flatt weighs in on Smitty’s Supply and criminal environmental cases

Records reveal federal criminal search warrant served at Smitty’s Supply

Louisiana Illuminator: Victor Flatt, the Coleman P. Burke Chair in Environmental Law and associate director of the Burke Center for Environmental Law, said criminal environmental cases are “much, much, much less common” than civil actions and usually signal suspected intentional acts or gross negligence. Federal records show EPA criminal investigators and the FBI executed a search warrant at Smitty’s Supply after last year’s fire and oil spill.