FRIENDS OF THE EARTH and Atlantic States Legal Foundation and Christian G. Spies, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees,
v.
CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee, Cross-Appellant.
HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee,
v.
CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee, Cross-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 19, 1985.
Decided July 19, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bruce J. Terris, Washington, D.C. (James M. Hecker, Terris & Sunderland, Washington, D.C., Jan S. Kublick, Davoli, McMahon & Kublick, Syracuse, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees Friends of the Earth, Atlantic States Legal Foundation and Christian G. Spies.
Anthony Z. Roisman, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant, cross-appellee Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
John R. Jenchura, Philadelphia, Pa. (Abbi L. Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for defendant-appellee, cross-appellant Consolidated Rail Corp.
Robin S. Conrad, National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Washington, D.C., for Chamber of Commerce of U.S.; Stark Ritchie, James K. Jackson, Thomas S. Llewellyn, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C., for American Petroleum Institute; David F. Zoll, Fredric P. Andes, Chemical Mfrs. Ass'n, Washington, D.C., for Chemical Mfrs. Ass'n; Douglas E. Kliever, Charles F. Lettow, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, D.C., for Synthetic Organic Chemical Mfrs. Ass'n, for amici curiae in Docket Nos. 84-7701 and 84-7715, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, American Petroleum Institute, Chemical Mfrs. Ass'n and Synthetic Organic Chemical Mfrs. Ass'n.
Bruce J. Terris, James M. Hecker, Terris & Sunderland, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae in Docket Nos. 84-7701 and 84-7715, Friends of the Earth, Atlantic States Legal Foundation and Student Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey.
Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., James A. Sevinsky, Kathleen Liston Morrison, Mary L. Lyndon, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of New York, Albany, N.Y., for amicus curiae in Docket Nos. 84-7701 and 84-7715, The State of New York.
Before MESKILL and PRATT, Circuit Judges, and METZNER, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
We have consolidated these two appeals for opinion, although they were argued separately,1 because they arise from similar facts and present a common legal question: whether enforcement actions by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) against Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) that culminated in consent orders preclude the institution of citizen suits under section 505 of the Federal...
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