NATURAL RES. DEFENSE COUNCIL v. CITY OF NEW YORK

Nos. 81 Civ. 6203 (KTD), 81 Civ. 6312 (KTD) and 81 Civ. 6313 (KTD).

528 F.Supp. 1245 (1981)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

December 7, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terris & Sunderland, Washington, D. C., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City, for plaintiffs; Bruce J. Terris, James M. Hecker, Washington, D. C., Joel S. Silber, Robin A. Fleischner, New York City, of counsel.

Lanigan, O'Connel, Jacobs & Chazin, Basking Ridge, N. J., Antonio Rossmann, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff Actors' Equity Association; William W. Lanigan, Carl H. Rifino, Basking Ridge, N. J., of counsel.

John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., New York City, for defendants Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. and James G. Watt; Gaines Gwathmey III, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel.

Allen G. Schwartz, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendants the City of New York, the Board of Estimate of the City of New York, Edward I. Koch, City Planning Commission of the City of New York and Community Board No. 5; Lorna Bade Goodman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, New York City, of counsel.

Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for defendants Richard A. Kahan and the New York State Urban Development Corp.; Michael D. Hess, Leslie A. Conason, New York City, of counsel.

Rosenman, Colin, Freund, Lewis & Cohen, New York City, Attorneys for defendant John C. Portman, Jr.; Arnold I. Roth, Charles A. Crum, Mark C. Extein, New York City, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N. Y., New York City, for defendants New York State, et al.; Richard Liskov, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.


OPINION & ORDER

KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge:

In this most recent case involving development of the Portman Hotel project, plaintiffs seek summary judgment on five of the claims asserted in their original federal complaint. All the summary judgment claims are based on violations of procedural requirements of either the National Historic Preservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 470 et seq. ["NHPA"], the Housing and Community Development Act, 42...

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