Legal Opinion
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Alexander
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided March 12, 1979No. EC 77-53, 77-54-KPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
READY, Chief Judge.
In 1971 a group of environmentalists challenged the validity of the TennesseeTombigbee Waterway (TTW), a navigational project in Alabama and Mississippi which Congress authorized in 1946. The original complaint, asserting six causes of action for alleged violation of various statutes, was dismissed with prejudice by the district court. EDF v. Corps of Engineers, 348 F.Supp. 916 (N.D.Miss.1972). The Fifth Circuit on appeal affirmed, 492 F.2d 1123 (1974), and certiorari was not sought.
Now, six years later and after the project is estimated to be about…
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3Cited by16 opinions
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