Environmental Defense Fund v. Alexander

ELR Citation: ELR 20302
No(s). 79-2684 (5th Cir. Mar 24, 1980)

The Fifth Circuit upholds the lower court's dismissal, 9 ELR 20492, a suit to halt completion of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on grounds of laches. Plaintiffs argued that the planned width of the waterway exceeded the size authorized by Congress in 1946. Although the Secretary of the Army revise...