WATCH (WATERBURY ACTION, ETC.) v. HARRIS

Nos. 858, 931, Dockets 79-7030, 79-7100.

603 F.2d 310 (1979)

WATCH (WATERBURY ACTION TO CONSERVE OUR HERITAGE INCORPORATED), Appellee-Cross Appellant, v. Patricia Roberts HARRIS, Individually and as Secretary, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Edward T. Martin, Regional Administrator, Region 1, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Lawrence Thompson, Area Director, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Appellees, Waterbury Urban Renewal Agency, Appellant-Cross Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Hartley, Jr., William J. Secor, Jr., Secor, Cassidy & McPartland, P. C., Waterbury, Conn., for appellant-cross appellee.

William Howard, Shaw & Howard, Middletown, Conn. (John F. Shaw, Jr., Middletown, Conn., on brief), for appellee-cross appellant.

James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Richard Blumenthal, U. S. Atty. for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, Conn., George J. Kelly, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Hartford, Conn., Robert L. Klarquist, John J. Zimmerman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., memorandum for the federal appellees.

Before LUMBARD and OAKES, Circuit Judges, and BRIEANT, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

An ongoing urban renewal project in the heart of a small New England city has evidently awakened in the minds and hearts of local citizens concern about the historical heritage that the project impinges upon. The citizens formed the plaintiff organization by the acronym WATCH, Waterbury Action to Conserve Our Heritage, Inc., and the organization brought suit against three individual federal officials, the Secretary, Regional Administrator, and...

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