STATE OF MO. v. ANDREWS

Nos. CV82-L-442, CV82-L-443.

586 F.Supp. 1268 (1984)

STATE OF MISSOURI, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Colonel William R. ANDREWS, Jr., et al., Defendants. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO., et al, Plaintiffs, v. Colonel William R. ANDREWS, Jr., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Nebraska.

May 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Curtis F. Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for State of Mo.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth M. Osenbaugh, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for State of Iowa.

Paul L. Douglas, Atty. Gen., G. Roderic Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., for State of Neb.

Robert O. Wefald, Atty. Gen., Murray G. Sagsveen, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Bismarck, N.D., for State of N.D., amicus curiae.

Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Daniel J. Doyle, Curtis Glen Wilson and Warren R. Neufeld, Asst. Attys. Gen., Pierre, S.D., for intervenor State of S.D.

Hogan & Hartson, James A. Hourihan and George U. Carneal, Washington, D.C., Marti, Dalton, Bruckner, O'Gara & Keating, P.C., M.J. Bruckner, Lincoln, Neb., for intervenor Energy Transp. Systems, Inc.

Jon T. Brown, Brenda H. Kelley, Stephen E. Roady, William B. Bonvillian, Brown, Roady, Bonvillian & Gold, Chartered, Washington, D.C., Knudsen, Berkheimer, Richardson & Endacott, Rodney M. Confer, Lincoln, Neb., for plaintiffs.

Frederick S. Middleton, III, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., for Sierra Club.

Carol E. Dinkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fred R. Disheroom, Sp. Litigation Counsel, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., Ronald D. Lahners, U.S. Atty., David A. Kubichek, Asst. U.S. Atty., Omaha, Neb., for federal defendants.


MEMORANDUM ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS AND ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

URBOM, Chief Judge.

This memorandum concerns the issue of the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to sign a contract with Energy Transportation Systems, Inc. (ETSI) which would allow ETSI to use water from Oahe Reservoir in a coal slurry pipeline. The complaints in both of these cases allege that the Secretary lacked authority to enter into the contract. The defendants...

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