Legal Opinion
R. J. Higginbotham and Mrs. Mary S. Dennis v. E. W. Barrett and E. P. Ellison
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1973No. 72-1526PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELL, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is from the dismissal of a suit seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against the Commissioners of Cobb County, Georgia, the County Engineer, and the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Plaintiffs reside on property adjacent to property as to which an application was pending to rezone it from residential to apartment use. They contended that no public sewerage facilities were available for the proposed apartments and that apartment use would pollute the Chattahoochee River and other streams of Cobb County. Plaintiffs reside…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Sierra Club v. MortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. CampSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Barlow v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Goldblatt v. Town of HempsteadSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. HardinCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Norbert C. Pearson, Also Known as Spike v. City of Grand Blanc, J. Larry TomlinsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1992
- Fred B. Shelton Iii, and John Paul Jones, Cross v. City of College Station, Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- South Gwinnett Venture v. PruittCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Nasser v. City of HomewoodCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
- Robert M. Couf, Mary A. Brown, and Development Finance, Inc. v. Karleen DeblakerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
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