COLUMBIA BASIN LAND PROTECTION ASS'N v. SCHLESINGER

Nos. 78-1526, 78-1588 and 78-3311.

643 F.2d 585 (1981)

COLUMBIA BASIN LAND PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, and South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. James R. SCHLESINGER, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellants. COLUMBIA BASIN LAND PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, and South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. James R. SCHLESINGER, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees. COLUMBIA BASIN LAND PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, and South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Plaintiff-Intervenor, and State of Washington and Franklin County, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. James SCHLESIGNER, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale L. Kingman, Thom, Navoni, Mussehl, Hoff, Pierson & Ryder, Seattle, Wash., on brief; Ronda L. Sandquist, Helena, Mont., argued, for Schlesinger.

C. J. Rabideau, Pasco, Wash., Robert M. Sweeney, Asst. U.S. Atty., Spokane, Wash., Thomas L. Bjorgen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Olympia, Wash., for Columbia Basin Land, et al. and intervenors.

Before ELY and NELSON, Circuit Judges, and KARLTON, District Judge.


NELSON, Circuit Judge:

Appellants (an association of farmers in Franklin County, Washington, hereinafter Landowners) sued the Bonneville Power Administration [BPA], an agency within the Department of the Interior, to enjoin the construction of a 500 kilovolt power transmission line across their lands. The district court denied them the injunction, and the Landowners now bring this appeal. All 191 towers required for the line...

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