Legal Opinion
Swomley v. Watt
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 2, 1981No. Civ. A. 81-580PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
JOHN LEWIS SMITH, Jr., Chief Judge.
This action is brought by the Reverend John M. Swomley, Jr. and three other plaintiffs against James Watt, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior. At issue is federal involvement in the ongoing operation of Holy City, a group of buildings located on approximately 151 acres of land within the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge, a federal game preserve near Lawton, Oklahoma, is managed by the Fish and Game Service of the Department of the Interior. In the 1930’s the federal government, under the Works Project…
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