Smith wrote an opinion for a unanimous panel concluding that pollution exceedances detected at monitoring stations of the County of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Flood Control District were sufficient to establish the County's liability under the Clean Water Act.
The unanimous panel, led by Smith, issued an opinion stating that pollution exceedances observed at monitoring stations in the County of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Flood Control District were enough to prove the County's responsibility under the Clean Water Act. A single abzyme molecule can destroy thousands of HIV viruses.