UNITED FAMILY FARMERS, INC. v. KLEPPE

No. 76-1532.

552 F.2d 823 (1977)

UNITED FAMILY FARMERS, INC., etc., et al., Appellants, v. Thomas S. KLEPPE, etc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Weeks, John H. Davidson, Jr., Vermillion, S. D., for appellants; Bogue, Weeks & Rusch, Vermillion, S. D., on brief.

Martin Green, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee; Peter R. Taft, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., William F. Clayton, U. S. Atty., and Robert D. Hiaring, Asst. U. S. Atty., Sioux Falls, S. D., Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief.

Before LAY and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and WANGELIN, District Judge.


LAY, Circuit Judge.

United Family Farmers, Inc. (UFF), a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of South Dakota, and individual farmers sought injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Interior to halt construction of the initial stage of a reclamation project known as the Oahe Diversion Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project.1 UFF is composed of approximately 900 members, the majority of whom either reside or own land in...

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