Legal Opinion
Bentley v. Ellam
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 15, 1991No. Civ. A. No. 3:CV-90-1138Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
CALDWELL, District Judge.
I. Introduction.
The defendant, Joseph J. Ellam, currently the Director of the Bureau of Dams and Waterway Management in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (DER), has filed a motion for summary judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56. The plaintiffs, Gregory and Caroline Bentley, filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action seeking redress for the diminution in the value of their real estate in Chester County, Pennsylvania, resulting from their neighbors’ operation of a hydroelectric plant on a stream dividing their properties. When Ellam was the Chief…
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