Legal Opinion
City of Auburn v. United States Government
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 3, 1998No. Nos. 96-71051, 97-70022 and 97-70920PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge:
These appeals arise out of three separate but related decisions of the Surface Transportation Board (“STB”), concerning the reopening of the Stampede Pass railroad line in western Washington state. The City of Auburn 1 challenges the STB’s finding of federal preemption of state and local environmental review laws in approval of the reopening of the Stampede Pass line, and objects to the lack of a full Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”). The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (“Burlington”) has intervened and filed briefs in all three cases.2
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