CANAL AUTHORITY OF STATE OF FLORIDA v. CALLAWAY

No. 73-2487.

489 F.2d 567 (1974)

The CANAL AUTHORITY OF the STATE OF FLORIDA et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Howard H. CALLAWAY, Secretary of the United States Army, et al., Defendants-Appellants. The CROSS-FLORIDA CANAL ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Howard H. CALLAWAY, Secretary of the United States Army, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Eleanor H. MILLER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Avery S. FULLERTON et al., Defendants-Appellants. ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CORPS OF ENGINEERS OF the UNITED STATES ARMY et al., Defendants-Appellants. J. G. PERKO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CANAL AUTHORITY OF the STATE OF FLORIDA, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 10, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacques B. Gelin, Wallace H. Johnson, Edmund B. Clark, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Frederick L. Miller, Dept. of Justice, Div. of Lands & Nat. Resources, Washington, D.C., John L. Briggs, U.S. Atty., John D. Roberts, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., for all fed. defendants.

Jon T. Brown, Wallace L. Duncan, Washington, D.C., Edward Lee Rogers, Gen. Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., East Setauket, N. Y., for Env. Defense and others.

Ralph E. Elliott, Jr., Frank C. Decker, Jacksonville, Fla., John H. Gullett, Washington, D.C., for Canal Authority and others.

Willard Ayres, Ocala, Fla., for Canal Authority of State of Fla.

David U. Tumin, Daniel U. Livermore, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., for Jacksonville Port Authority.

A. W. Nichols, III, Ronald E. Clark, Palatka, Fla., for Eleanor H. Miller and others.

William L. Eagan, Orlando, Fla., for Perko.

Tracy Danese, Jacksonville, Fla., for Cross-Fla. Assoc. and others.

Alan B. Fields, Jr., Palatka, Fla., for Eleanor H. Miller and others.

Before THORNBERRY, GOLDBERG and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 10, 1974.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the denial of defendants' motion to modify a preliminary injunction which prevents defendants from reducing the water level of Lake Ocklawaha below eighteen feet above mean sea level (m.s.l.). We find that the district court applied the wrong legal standards in considering the motion to modify, and we remand for...

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