Legal Opinion
Save Our Wetlands, Inc. v. Colonel Thomas Sands, Etc., (Two Cases)
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 8, 1983No. 81-3304, 81-3556PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK,
Chief Judge:
Save Our Wetlands, Inc., a nonprofit Louisiana corporation, filed this suit in an effort to block the construction of a 25-mile long electric transmission line along the west bank of the Mississippi River. The organization appeals from a district court dismissal of the complaint under Rule 41(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. We affirm.
I. The Facts
In 1969, Louisiana Power and Light Company (LP & L) began acquiring property for the right-of-way for a transmission line corridor between Taft, Louisiana and Westwe-go, Louisiana along the west bank of the Mississippi…
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