WAMPLER v. GOLDSCHMIDT

Civ. No. 5-80-39.

486 F.Supp. 1130 (1980)

Linus WAMPLER; Katherine E. Tintor; Judith A. Obeidginski; Frederick M. Salo; United Steelworkers of America; Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 563, AFL-CIO; the Minnesota AFL-CIO; Armco, Inc.; Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Inland Steel Company; Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Company; and United States Steel Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Neil GOLDSCHMIDT, Secretary of U. S. Dept. of Transportation; Karl S. Bowers, Federal Highway Administrator; Albert H. Quie, Governor of the State of Minnesota; Richard P. Braun, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation; James J. Hiniker, Jr., Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Administration; Lowell Jackson, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation; and Cleco Construction Company, Inc., Defendants.

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

February 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen G. Palmer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., John R. Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., Charles R. Larsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., Timothy O'Brien and Peter F. Greiner, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants.

John G. Engberg and Roger A. Peterson, Peterson, Engberg & Peterson, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiffs.

Richard Kyle, Jr., Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul, Minn., for U. S. Steel Corp.

John B. Gordon, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Armco, Inc., and Bethlehem Steel Corp.

John M. Donovan, Duluth, Minn., for Inland Steel Co. and Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.

William T. Egan and Timothy Thornton, Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel, Minneapolis, Minn., for Republic Steel Corp.


ORDER

MILES W. LORD, District Judge.

I. FACTS

On August 12, 1974, the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin entered into an agreement wherein the states agreed to cooperate in the construction of a proposed new Arrowhead Bridge spanning the St. Louis River between Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. The agreement essentially provided that the states would cooperate in the apportionment of the costs...

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