Plaintiff's alleged interest in federal agencies' issuance of "term," "revocable" and other permits to private developers of Mineral King Valley insufficient to support standing. District court's order granting preliminary injunction reversed, on merits, because neither irreparable injury nor likeli...
On petition for rehearing the Seventh Circuit en banc here reconsiders its July 15, 1970, opinion, 1 ERC 1460, and reverses the district court order (N.D. Ill.) granting plaintiffs (agricultural products manufacturers) a preliminary injunction restraining the Secretary of Agriculture from enforcing ...
Defendant manufacturer enjoined in civil action under Refuse Act from discharging industrial sewage into the Hudson River, except in conformance with detailed court order regarding chlorination, primary treatment, biological oxygen demand (on schedule for reduction set by court) and later incorporat...
The National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to prepare environmental impact [§102(2)(C)] statements for proposed or continuing activities only. The requirement does not apply to decisions made by the Bonneville Power Administration regarding a transmission line, the construction...
Petition for certiorari before judgment denied, and stay of construction of two segments of an interstate highway in a public park in San Antonio, Texas (granted by the Court on Dec. 7, 1970), dissolved. No majority opinion was filed. Justices Black, Douglas and Brennan, in dissent, express concern ...
Plaintiff taconite mining company granted a variance from defendant's recently promulgated Minnesota Water Pollution Control Regulation WPC 15(c)(6), which forbids discharges of suspended solids in Minnesota waters of concentrations above 30 milligrams per liter (mg/l). The variance allows the prese...
Defendants' motion to dismiss two indictments charging them with dumping rendering plant wastes into Penobscot Bay in violation of the Refuse Act, 33 U.S.C. §407, as selective, uneven and therefore unconstitutional enforcement of the law, contrary to the U.S. Const. 5th Amend., is denied. The fact ...
Temporary stay denied of hearings conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission to determine whether power generating reactor should be licensed. Commission's refusal to allow petitioners to present evidence of thermal pollution in hearings is not a final order justifying judicial review. Agency's proce...
Plaintiffs, seven conservation organizations, obtain preliminary injunction restraining Army Corps of Engineers from carrying out channel clearing project on Gila River. 3,000 acres of phreatophytic (water consuming) vegetation along 55 miles of the river were threatened. Clearing was begun without ...
District court dismissal of action to enjoin construction of creche (nativity scene) on federal parkland in the Ellipse (Washington, D.C.) as part of annual Christmas pageant because plaintiffs lacked standing vacated and case remanded for trial on issue of whether impression created by presence of ...