CITIZENS FOR BALANCED ENVIRONMENT v. SECRETARY

Civ. No. 15054.

515 F.Supp. 151 (1980)

CITIZENS FOR BALANCED ENVIRONMENT AND TRANSPORTATION, INC., et al, Plaintiffs, v. SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION et al, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

July 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haynes N. Johnson, Bryan, Parmelee, Johnson & Bollinger, Stamford, Conn., Harvey D. Carter, Jr., Bennington, Vt., Gregory I. McGregor, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Francis J. Collins, Cutsumpas, Collins & Hannafin, Danbury, Conn., for amicus curiae Brookfield Planning Commission.

Scott Warner, Salisbury, Conn., for amicus curiae Housatonic Valley Association.

William Lynch, Conn. Dept. of Transportation, Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Atty., Diana Garfield, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., for Volpe and Siccardi.

Alfred F. Wechsler, Richard Goodman, Hartford, Conn., for A. Earl Wood and George S. Koch.

Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., F. D. Neusner, Kenneth N. Tedford, Asst. Attys. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for Conn. Commissioner of Transportation and Connecticut Deputy Commissioner of Transportation, Bureau of Highways.

Gary A. MacMillan, Francis J. McNamara, Jr., Cummings & Lockwood, Stamford, Conn., for General Datacomm Industries, Inc., The Gilbert & Bennett Mfg. Co., The Perkin-Elmer Corp., The Holson Co., Richardson-Merrell, Inc., First Merritt Corp., Emery Air Freight Corp., Pitney Bowes, Inc. and Boehringer-Ingelheim Ltd.

William B. Fitzgerald, Carmody & Torrance, Waterbury, Conn., in lieu of Walter F. Torrance for the Connecticut Light & Power Co.

Stephen J. O'Brien, Fairfield, Conn., for The J. Alden Weir Farm Committee for Heritage Conservation, Inc.


RULING ON MOTION TO VACATE PERMANENT INJUNCTION

DALY, District Judge.

Plaintiff (CBET) is the successor in interest of the Committee to Stop Route 7, aggrieved by the planned construction of a new expressway to replace the present U.S. Route 7 from Norwalk, Connecticut to Danbury, Connecticut.1 Its original complaint, filed in 1972, seeks to block the construction of the proposed...

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