Legal Opinion
United States v. Metropolitan District Commission, Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 19, 1988No. 87-1956PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Dismayed by chronic pollution and by the unauthorized and illegal discharge of raw and inadequately-treated sewage into the waters of Boston Harbor, the neighboring city of Quincy, Massachusetts sued the Massachusetts District Commission (MDC), a state agency which operated the port. Quincy’s suit, filed in a Massachusetts state court in January 1983, was soon expanded into a full-fledged effort to compel correction of the substandard conditions. Some six months later, the Conservation Law Foundation of New England (CLF), appellant before us, brought a similar action in…
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