FARMLAND PRESERVATION ASS'N v. GOLDSCHMIDT

No. 79-1583.

611 F.2d 233 (1979)

FARMLAND PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION; Community Action Research Group of Iowa, Inc., Norman Clare Sloan, Appellants, v. Neil GOLDSCHMIDT, Secretary, United States Department of Transportation, et al., Appellees, Waterloo Chamber of Commerce et al. (Intervenors), Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce J. Terris, Washington, D. C., for appellants; Edward Corner, Washington, D. C., and Keith Mossman, of Mossman & Mossman, Vinton, Iowa, on brief.

Robert W. Goodwin, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Iowa Department of Transp., Ames, Iowa, for the State appellees.

David C. Shilton, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for Federal appellees; Jacques B. Gelin, Washington, D. C., James H. Reynolds, U. S. Atty., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief.

Cecil L. Goettsch, Kent M. Forney and Patrick B. Northup, Des Moines, Iowa, on brief, for appellees, Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, et al.

Before LAY, HEANEY and HENLEY, Circuit Judges.


HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

This is an environmental case in which plaintiffs appeal from a final order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa (The Honorable Edward J. McManus, Chief Judge) denying plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and granting a cross-motion for summary judgment filed by the defendants. We affirm.

The action was commenced by or on behalf of a number of Iowa farmers for the purpose of opposing the proposed construction...

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