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BUNCH v. HODEL

No. 85-1110.

642 F.Supp. 363 (1985)

George BUNCH, Dorothy Bunch, Jamie Hamilton, Bonnie Hamilton, Dare Hayes, James E. Naifeh, Buddy Wade Moore, Terry L. Hopper, Tommy Yarbro, Joe Parker, and Louis Hornsby, Plaintiffs, v. Donald HODEL, Individually, and as Secretary of the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, Gary T. Myers, Individually, and as Executive Director of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and Larry E. Nunn, John D. Graham, Les Hill, Johnny Bellis, Jim Carmichel, Norma Crow, Charles A. Howell, III, Tommy Knowles, Frank Madlinger, and Charles Peavyhouse, Commissioners of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, E.D.

July 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alf Adams, Jr., Adams, Taylor, Philbin, Pigue and Marchetti, C. Kinian Cosner, Jr., Cosner and Waldschmidt, Nashville, Tenn., Edward E. Hall, Brentwood, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Mary Walker, Michael Peragin, Asst. Attys. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., Robert M. Williams, Asst. U.S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for defendants.

HORTON, District Judge.

In this lawsuit, the Court has been asked to resolve a controversial environmental issue centering on Reelfoot Lake and the national wildlife refuge located there. Plaintiffs seek an order from this Court enjoining the defendants, the State of Tennessee and the United States from proceeding further with a very controversial drawdown of water 5.8 feet below normal pool level at Reelfoot Lake. It is the position of the plaintiffs, which is denied...

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