POPE v. CITY OF ATLANTA

No. C76-607A.

418 F.Supp. 665 (1976)

Mrs. Betty POPE, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF ATLANTA and William A. Hewes, as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Buildings of the City of Atlanta, and Atlanta Regional Commission, Defendants, Friends of the River, Inc., and the State of Georgia, Intervenors.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

August 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moreton Rolleston, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

Ralph Witt, William R. Bassett and Harvey M. Koenig, Atlanta, Ga., for Atlanta Regional Commission.

Furman Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for intervenor, Friends of the River.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., State of Ga., Patricia Barmeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ga., Atlanta, Ga., for State of Ga.


ORDER

MOYE, District Judge.

This is an action for injunctive and declaratory relief involving a constitutional challenge to the Metropolitan River Protection Act (River Act), Act Number 66, Georgia Laws 1973. Plaintiff Mrs. Betty Pope seeks to enjoin defendants city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) from enforcing a stop work order issued on April 2, 1976, contending that such order enforcing the River Act and halting work on the construction...

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