MINNESOTA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP v. ADAMS

No. Civ. 4-73-461.

482 F.Supp. 170 (1979)

MINNESOTA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, a Minnesota non-profit corporation; Dakota County Environmental Protective Association, a Minnesota non-profit corporation; and the City of Sunfish Lake; and the State of Minnesota by the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group; the State of Minnesota by the Dakota County Environmental Protective Association; and the State of Minnesota by the City of Sunfish Lake, Plaintiffs, v. Brock ADAMS, Secretary of Transportation; Donald E. Trull, Regional Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; E. Dean Carlson, Federal Division Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Richard Braun, Commissioner, Department of Transportation, State of Minnesota; Merritt Linzie, District Engineer, District 9, Department of Transportation, State of Minnesota; and each and every one of the foregoing individually as well as in his designated official capacity; and the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

December 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip W. Getts, Dayton, Herman, Graham & Getts, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiffs Minnesota Public Interest Research Group and Dakota County Environmental Protective Ass'n.

Richard E. Leonard, City Atty., St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiff-intervenor City of Sunfish Lake.

Stephen G. Palmer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants Brock Adams, Donald E. Trull and E. Dean Carlson, William A. Caldwell, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Eric B. Schultz, Sp. Counsel, St. Paul, Minn., for defendants Richard Braun, Merritt Linzie and Minnesota Dept. of Transp.


MacLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the motion of plaintiffs, the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group [hereinafter MPIRG], the Dakota County Environmental Protective Association [hereinafter DCEPA], and plaintiff-intervenor the City of Sunfish Lake, for a preliminary injunction which seeks to enjoin the defendants from proceeding with the construction of the final 11 miles of Interstate 494, a part of the interstate highway beltline...

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