NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. BURFORD

Civ. A. No. 85-2238.

676 F.Supp. 271 (1985)

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION, Plaintiff, v. Robert F. BURFORD, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman L. Dean, Jr., Kathleen C. Zimmerman, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Susan V. Cook, Pauline H. Milius, Jose R. Allen, Jacques B. Gelin, Washington, D.C. (Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Claire S. Newcomer, Gary L. Bohlke, Michael Jeter, Richard J. Woodcock, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendants.

Steven R. Ross, Charles Tiefer, Michael L. Murray, Washington, D.C., for intervenor-plaintiff House of Representatives.

Constance E. Brooks, R. Norman Cramer, Jr., Casey Shpall, Denver, Colo., Richard D. Godown, Tim Haake, Washington, D.C., for defendant-intervenor Mountain States Legal Foundation.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOHN H. PRATT, District Judge.

Introduction

Plaintiff, an environmental organization, brought suit against the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the Secretary of the Interior and the Department of the Interior to challenge the lifting of protective restrictions on certain federal lands. Plaintiff's cause of action arises under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the National Environmental Policy Act of...

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