Legal Opinion
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 13, 1980No. 781, Docket 79-6206PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MULLIGAN, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Hon. Lee P. Gagliardi, Judge, which denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction and granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the *240complaint. In a decision reported at 476 P.Supp. 126, the court below concluded that the suit was not ripe for judicial review. We agree.
In 1965, Congress passed the Northeastern United States Water Supply (“NEWS”) Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1962d-4, which recognized that “assuring adequate supplies of water for the great metropolitan…
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