Legal Opinion
The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 9, 1973No. 72-1796 to 72-1798PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The question before us in these cases is whether a permanent injunction should issue barring appellee Secretary of the Interior from carrying out his stated intention of granting rights-of-way and special land use permits necessary for construction by appellee Alyes-ka Pipeline Service Company (Alyeska), across lands owned by the United States, of a 48-ineh-wide oil pipeline which would stretch some 789 miles from Prud-hoe Bay on the North Slope of the State of Alaska to the Port of Valdez on the southern Pacific coast of Alaska. We are also called upon to…
2Cases cited104 opinions
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- United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Sierra Club v. MortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by159 opinions
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