Legal Opinion
Citizens to Preserve Wilderness Park, Inc. v. Adams
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided September 22, 1981No. CV79-L-137PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
URBOM, Chief Judge.
A West Bypass, an expressway facility around a part of Lincoln, Nebraska, if constructed as proposed, would take a part of Wilderness Park. The legal issues are whether the federal laws touching that kind of taking have been met.
Suit has been brought under the Department of Transportation Act of October 15, 1966, 49 U.S.C. §§ 1651 et seq.; the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968, 23 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq.; 28 U.S.C. § 1331(a); 5 U.S.C. §§ 701 et seq.; the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321 et seq.; and the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. VolpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- 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
- Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Robert F. Froehlke, Secretary of the ArmyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1972
- Sierra Club v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Shell Oil Company, Intervenors-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Sierra Club, a Corporation v. Robert F. Froehlke, Secretary of the ArmyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by7 opinions
- The Eagle Foundation, Inc. v. Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of TransportationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1987
- Coalition on Sensible Transportation Inc. v. DoleDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1986
- County of Bergen v. DoleDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1985
- Wade v. DoleDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1986
- Hickory Neighborhood Defense League v. SkinnerDistrict Court, W.D. North Carolina · 1990
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