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SAVE OUR SYCAMORE v. METROPOLITAN ATLANTA, ETC.

Nos. 76-1978, 76-2712.

576 F.2d 573 (1978)

SAVE OUR SYCAMORE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY, DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA, and William T. Coleman, Secretary of Transportation, U. S. Department of Transportation, Defendants-Appellees. INMAN PARK RESTORATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The URBAN TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 12, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard N. Hubert, Robert L. Schwind, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant in No. 76-1978.

Anne S. Emanuel, W. Stell Huie, Betty W. Driver, Atlanta, Ga., for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid.

Wendell Willard, Decatur, Ga., for DeKalb Co. and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit, etc.

Robert W. Batchelder, Urban Mass Trans. Adm., Washington, D. C., for Reynoldstown Civic Improve.

John R. Myer, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 76-2712.

John W. Stokes, U. S. Atty., William D. Mallard, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for Secretary of Transportation and federal defendants.

Charles E. Biblowit, Atty., Land & Nat. Resources Div., App. Sec., George R. Hyde, Atty., Peter R. Taft, Asst. Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for federal defendants.

Before GOLDBERG, GODBOLD and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

These cases concern compliance of the Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) with federal statutes in approving, financing and constructing a rapid transit system for the metropolitan Atlanta region.

Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief from defendants' alleged failure to comply with requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4331 et seq. (1970), of section 4(f) of the...

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