MUMFORD COVE ASS'N, INC. v. TOWN OF GROTON, CONN.

No. 187, Docket 85-7438.

786 F.2d 530 (1986)

The MUMFORD COVE ASSOCIATION, INC.; Haley Farms Estates, Inc.; Marion Ackerman, Cheryl M. Barrett, Peter J. Bartinik, Marianne Bartinik, Catherine Belair, Wayne Berge, Robert G. Boggs, Phyllis Boggs, Arthur S. Booth, Ellen L. Booth, Kathleen F. Bragaw, Louis K. Bragaw, Henry L. Braly, Mary S. Braly, Harriett Brown, Malcolm Brown, Muriel W. Buckley, William C. Byrnes, Harriet M. Caramella, Severn S. Carlson, Hugh D. Casey, Henry J. Chamberlain, Mary M. Chamberlain, William S. Clark, John J. Condron, Marguerite Condron, David M. Cote, Marchia B. Cote, David P. Dean, David L. Deibel, Ruth W. Delap, James Duffy, Edythe Duffy, Henry F. Durham, Gail C. Eddy, David F. Falvey, Esq., H. Patricia Falvey, Eleanor G. Feinberg, Glen S. Feinberg, Linda R. Feinberg, Gregory E. Gardiner, Linda J. Gardiner, Harry D. Gault, Jr., Ralph M. Gifford, Judith N. Gifford, John M. Gray, III, Kenneth Grube, George Guertin, M. Madeline Guertin, Joseph Hanzel, Joann B. Harrington, John Hewes, Dorothy Hoyt, Paul C. Huber, Dorothy A. Huber, Helene Lavigueur, Angelo C. Lazaros, Marilyn Leonard, Wallace MacPeek, Jean F. Mazzella, Miriam Morgan, Wayne N. Muller, Rosalie Muller, Jack Muratore, Ralph Olesen, Gale Olesen, Edward Oliveira, Helen Oliveira, Arthur G. Olson, Rita M. Pease, Salvatore Pennella, Sandra Pennella, John A. Pescatello, Harold M. Pingree, Jr., Joyce O. Regan, Ward M. Ritchey, J. Louise Roberts, Malcolm J. Robertson, Margaret Robertson, William Seibert, Arthur J. Shaw, III, Marie Shaw, Jeremiah Shea, Herman E. Sheets, Earl W. Smith, Ruth E. Stocker, Warren C. Stocker, Helen H. Stockwell, Colleen Ann Sullivan, Howard R. Swenson, Alfred W. Thatcher, Eleanor V. Walker, George J. Walker, Joseph Warner, Ernest H. Treff, Dorthea Warner, Dorothy Windhorst, David H. Swenson, Laura Swenson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Stanley J. Pac, Commissioner of Environmental Protection, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The TOWN OF GROTON, CONNECTICUT, Defendant, The City of Groton and the City of New London, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Eldergill, Manchester, Conn. (Beck & Eldergill, Manchester, Conn., of counsel), for appellants.

Mark R. Sussman, Hartford, Conn. (Russell L. Brenneman, R. Bradford Fawley, Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Richard F. Webb, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Joseph I. Lieberman, Atty. Gen., State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiff-intervenor.

Before MANSFIELD, MESKILL, and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

Two Connecticut cities seek to inject themselves into a federal suit brought against a Connecticut town to compel its compliance with an order requiring the town to shift the site of sewage discharge. At the root of the cities' motion to intervene are several concerns. Foremost is that enforcement of the order would result in pollution of the Thames River that flows between the two cities. Also significant is the related costly burden of...

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