( November 20, 2024, 1:50 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Affirming summary judgment in favor of the owners of a Montana mountain resort, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said in an unpublished memorandum disposition that the ruling by a federal district court shutting down Clean Water Act (CWA) claims asserted by an environmental law center arising from alleged discharges of treated wastewater was correct because a consent order from a previous case bars the claims through a combination of res judicata and release....