Atlantic States Legal Found. v. Babbitt

ELR Citation: ELR 20361
No(s). 99-CV-1292 (N.D.N.Y. Feb 8, 2000)

The court holds that Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity bars an environmental group's suit against a state environmental agency challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's grant of a migratory bird depredation permit to the state agency. The court first holds that the state environmental age...