UNITED STATES v. TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD

No. 198, Docket 79-6128.

610 F.2d 1025 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD et al., Defendants-Appellees, and The Citizens Concerned About the Landfill et al., Intervenors-Appellees, and The State of New York, Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Caro, Asst. U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Harvey M. Stone, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn N. Y. and Stephen A. Dvorkin, E. P. A., New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Angelo J. Mangia, Asst. Town Atty., Town of North Hempstead, Manhasset, N. Y. (Joseph A. Guarino, Town Atty., Town of North Hempstead, Manhasset, N. Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

John G. Proudfit, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., and Robert S. Hammer, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, on the brief), for intervenor-appellant.

Before MEDINA, MANSFIELD and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


MEDINA, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves some questions of considerable importance to those who reside in the vicinity of the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. The legal questions relate to the operation of the Roslyn incinerator and an extensive landfill used in connection with the disposal of huge quantities of garbage, rubbish and miscellaneous debris. Both the incinerator and the landfill are operated by and wholly under the control...

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