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WILDERNESS SOCIETY v. MORTON

No. 72-1090.

463 F.2d 1261 (1972)

The WILDERNESS SOCIETY et al. (David Anderson and The Canadian Wild-life Federation), Appellants, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the Interior, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward Berlin, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mr. Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Messrs. Herbert Pittle and Robert S. Lynch, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee Morton.

Mr. Robert E. Jordan, III, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Paul F. Mickey, John E. Nolan, Jr. and Quinn O'Connell, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Mr. Richard H. Porter, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.

Messrs. Dennis M. Flannery, Charles R. Halpern, John F. Dienelt, Washington, D. C., James W. Moorman, San Francisco, Cal., and Victor H. Kramer, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellees Wilderness Society and others.

Before WRIGHT and TAMM, Circuit Judges, and FRANK A. KAUFMAN, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland.

PER CURIAM:

The question presented by this appeal is whether the District Court properly denied an application of a nonresident Canadian citizen and a Canadian environmental organization to intervene in litigation aimed at testing whether the Secretary of the Interior has complied with the procedures of the National Environmental Policy Act1 prior to deciding whether to issue a permit for the trans-Alaska pipeline. In the basic action...

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