ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND v. HARDIN

Civ. A. No. 2319-70.

325 F.Supp. 1401 (1971)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural (Clean), National Wildlife Federation, and Florida Audubon Society, Plaintiffs, v. Clifford M. HARDIN, Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural Research Service, Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Lee Rogers, East Setauket, N. Y., Jon T. Brown, Wallace L. Duncan, Washington, D. C., for Environmental Defense Fund and CLEAN.

Robert M. Kennan, Jr., Washington, D. C., for National Wildlife Federation.

David Gluckman, Orlando, Fla., for Audubon Society.

Walter Kiechel, Jr., Kenneth F. Hoffman, and Stuart B. Shoenburg, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

GASCH, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, through this action, seek to enjoin the Secretary of Agriculture from undertaking a cooperative Federal-State program to control the imported fire ant in the southeastern United States. The details of this program and the facts and circumstances surrounding it are more fully set out in the Findings of Fact which accompany this Memorandum. Plaintiffs' petition for injunction is based on their allegations that...

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