FRITIOFSON v. ALEXANDER

No. 84-2592.

772 F.2d 1225 (1985)

Eva FRITIOFSON, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Clifford ALEXANDER, Jr., Secretary of the Army, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 7, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel K. Hedges, U.S. Atty., James R. Gough, Asst. U.S. Atty., Robert N. Hinton, Jr., Charles T. Newton, Jr., Sharon M. Mattox, Houston, Tex., William Lazarus, David C. Shilton, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

Robert M. Moore, Wesley C. Johnson, Galveston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before RANDALL, DAVIS and HILL, Circuit Judges.


RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

Eleven years ago, a home developer applied for a federal permit to dredge canals in the navigable waters around Galveston Island, Texas. From the beginning, environmental groups and neighboring landowners have fought against the development. They sought first to persuade, and then to compel, the Army Corps of Engineers to prepare a formal environmental impact statement, under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, before ...

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