Awww! Diesel Brothers Have To Pay $1 Million In Legal Fees For 100s Of Violations Of Clean Air Laws
SALT LAKE CITY — Already facing $848,000 in damages for Clean Air Act violations, the Diesel Brothers reality TV stars have a new headache: legal fees of almost $1 million. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled recently in Salt Lake City that David Sparks, Joshua Stuart and two corporate entities controlled by Sparks must pay $928,602 in legal fees and costs to Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.
The Diesel Brothers defendants owe the fees after UPHE prevailed last year in a civil action. Shelby last April ordered the truck builders to pay $848,000 in penalties for 400 violations of pollution law stemming from installing and selling emission control defeat devices. Modified trucks produced by the Woods Cross diesel people drew the doctors’ group’s attention via the ”Diesel Brothers” show on Discovery Channel.
The environmental group sued in 2016 under provisions of the Clean Air Act that allow citizens to seek civil damages against violators. The legal team representing the doctors’ group filed for more than $1.4 million in costs and fees, but Shelby shaved $532,164 off that request in a Jan. 26 ruling.
The team, led by Reed Zars of Laramie, Wyoming, billed for 3,307 hours of work, but Shelby reduced the allowed total to 2,128 hours, deeming some of the claimed reimbursements unjustified.
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