Legal Opinion
Town of Barnstable v. Berwick
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 2, 2014No. Civil Action No. 14-10148-RGSPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON STATE DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
STEARNS, District Judge.
This Complaint is the latest chapter in a long-running saga involving the siting of a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The dispute pits the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the diversified energy policy espoused by Governor Deval Patrick against an obdurate band of aggrieved residents of Cape Cod and the Islands. Both sides in the dispute claim the mantle of environmentalism, although for present purposes, plaintiffs1 have doffed their green garb and draped themselves in the banner of free-market economics.…
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- Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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