Legal Opinion
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Corps of Engineers of United States Army
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided August 4, 1972No. EC 72-11-KPublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
READY, District Judge.
On May 25, 1971, the President of the United States presided over the dedication and ground breaking ceremony at Mobile, Alabama, of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a navigation project in Alabama and Mississippi which Congress authorized in 1946. 1 By this project the Army Corps of Engineers was authorized to construct a waterway connecting the north-flowing Tennessee River with the south-flowing Tombigbee River so as to provide a continuous waterway from the . Tennessee, upper Mississippi and Ohio Valleys to the tidewater port of Mobile, on the Gulf…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Sierra Club v. MortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Rogers C. B. Morton, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of InteriorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- Oklahoma Ex Rel. Phillips v. Guy F. Atkinson Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Corps of Engineers of the U. S. ARMYDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1971
- Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by55 opinions
- Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Corps of Engineers of the United States ArmyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1972
- Trout Unlimited v. MortonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1974
- Environmental Defense Fund v. MarshCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Environmental Defense Fund v. Tennessee Valley AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1972
- Arthur Silva v. James T. LynnCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1973
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