SIERRA CLUB v. VOLPE

No. C-72-919.

351 F.Supp. 1002 (1972)

SIERRA CLUB, a non-profit corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. John A. VOLPE, Secretary of Transportation, Individually and in his official capacity, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

December 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Chalmers, of Petty, Andrews, Olsen, Tufts, Jackson & Sander, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Harry S. Fenton, Sacramento, Cal., John P. Horgan, San Francisco, Cal., Kingsly T. Hoegstedt, Sacramento, Cal., Norval Fairman, Robert R. Buell, and Donald M. Velasco, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

SWEIGERT, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Sierra Club, and other conservation organizations, together with seven individuals, who allege that they reside in the general area of the freeway project hereinafter mentioned, bring this suit to restrain federal and California highway officials from proceeding with construction of the so-called Devil's Slide By-Pass Freeway project on the ground of failure to comply, as to the federal defendants...

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