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NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. WATT

Civ. A. No. 83-2648.

571 F.Supp. 1145 (1983)

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION and the Wilderness Society, Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

Memorandum with Respect to Preliminary Injunction October 6, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Robert Witmer, Jr., Rochester, N.Y., Jane E. Kirtley, Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Norman L. Dean, Jr., Nat. Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

F. Henry Habicht, II, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert D. Daniel, Sp. Lit. Counsel, Michael Reed, Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendant.

John A. Macleod, Timothy M. Biddle, David B. Siegel, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for defendants-intervenors North American Coal Corp., Falkirk Mining Co., Missouri Valley Properties Co., and Baukol-Noonan, Inc.

Stanley M. Brand, Gen. Counsel to the Clerk, Steven R. Ross, Deputy Counsel to the Clerk, Michael L. Murray, Asst. Counsel to the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-intervenor Morris K. Udall.

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

This is an action by plaintiffs against the Secretary of Interior to declare illegal and to enjoin his planned issuance of leases to certain coal lands in Montana and North Dakota. The Honorable Morris Udall, Chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, has intervened as a plaintiff. Potential lessees have intervened as defendants.

At issue is the legality of the Secretary's refusal...

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