Legal Opinion
The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 12, 1974No. 72-1796 to 72-1798PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Wilderness Society, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. and Friends of the Earth request an award of expenses and attorneys’ fees related to the litigation they successfully prosecuted to, bar construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline. See Wilderness Society v. Morton, 156 U.S.App.D.C. 121, 479 F.2d 842, cert. denied, 411 U.S. 917, 93 S.Ct. 1550, 36 L.Ed.2d 309 (1973). A bill of costs has also been filed by The Cordova District Fisheries Union, appellant in No. 72-1798. While the primary issue now before us concerns the propriety of assessing attorneys’…
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3Cited by99 opinions
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