NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. GOLDSCHMIDT

Civ. A. No. H 80-47.

504 F.Supp. 314 (1980)

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION; Eastern Connecticut Citizens Action Group, Inc.; Stop I-84, Inc., of Rhode Island; Connecticut Committee of Correspondence, Inc.; Connecticut Fund For the Environment, Inc.; Connecticut Wildlife Federation; Save Our State Committee, Inc.; and Sierra Club v. Neil GOLDSCHMIDT, Secretary of Transportation; Robert E. Kirby, Regional Federal Highway Administrator, Region 1; Donato J. Altobelli, Division Administration for Connecticut, Federal Highway Administration; and Arthur B. Powers, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Transportation.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

November 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Burwell, Washington, D. C., Haynes N. Johnson, Parmalee, Johnson, Bollinger & Bramblett, Stamford, Conn., Daniel Millstone, New Haven, Conn., Arlene Violet, Providence, R. I., for plaintiffs.

Frank H. Santoro, Asst. U. S. Atty., Richard Blumenthal, U. S. Atty., for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, Conn., Ezra D. Rosenberg, Atty., Land and Natural Resources Division, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants Neil Goldschmidt, Robert E. Kirby and Donato J. Altobelli.

Kenneth N. Tedford, Susan T. Pearlman, Asst. Attys. Gen., Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen. of the State of Connecticut, Wethersfield, Conn., for defendant Arthur B. Powers.

Thomas C. Clark, Grant H. Miller, Jr., Clark, Mayo & Gilligan, Hartford, Conn., for amicus curiae I-84 Yes, Inc.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DEFENDANTS' CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JOSE A. CABRANES, District Judge:

Introduction

At issue in this case are the plans of the United States Department of Transportation ("DOT") for three segments of Interstate Route 84 ("I-84") east of Hartford, Connecticut. The three proposed segments of I-84 which the plaintiffs challenge here are part of a plan to extend...

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