Plaintiffs motion for summary reversal and stay of the district court's order denying a preliminary injunction of an underground nuclear explosion (Project Cannikin) on Amchitka Island is denied, although substantial doubt exists as to the adequacy of the Commission's impact statement under NEPA, be...
Application for Injunction to delay detonation of nuclear warhead on Amchitka Island, "Cannikin," presented to the Chief Justice and referred by him to the Court, is denied. Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Douglas dissent because they find the case presents a substantial question as to the legality ...
Section 23 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 construed as not exempting the Three Sisters Bridge and three other District of Columbia Interstate Highway projects from the planning requirements of federal highway law, including the public hearing requirements. Were the statute interpreted as den...
Construction of the Three Sisters Bridge Interstate highway project enjoined, because in planning and commencing construction of that project, federal highway officials did not comply with the design public hearing requirements of 23 U.S.C. §128 as implemented by Policy and Procedure Memorandum 20-...
District court decision enjoining construction of the Three Sisters Bridge (1 ELR 20552), on remand from this court now affirmed with respect to the finding that the Department of Transportation failed to comply with certain of the public hearing and structural safety preconditions to highway approv...
Where plaintiff requested certain documents in June 1971 and FPC, "after considerable temporizing," announced they were available for public inspection in October 1971, Commission must deliver file to New York for three-day period of inspection by counsel for plaintiffs. Plaintiffs, however, have no...
Urban Renewal Authority exercising delegated police power may require a public utility to relocate electric transmission wires underground in area of a planned renewal project, without compensating the utility for the cost of the relocation. Permits to utilities for use of such areas may be conditio...
Where amendment to Federal Water Pollution Control Act requires any federal agency having jurisdiction over any real property or facility to comply with state and local water quality standards "consistent with the paramount interest of the United States as determined by the President," and where pre...
District court decision reversed as to federal appellees, affirmed as to state appellee. Administrators of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) must comply with provisions of NEPA and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in considering grants to state agencies under Safe Streets Act...
When read in conjunction, the Taylor Grazing Act and the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1954 render void the filing of mining claims on lands classified by the Secretary of Interior for recreation purposes. While this interpretation runs counter to a "natural reading of the pertinent statutor...