BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES OF ALABAMA, INC. v. ALA. DEPT. OF ENVIRON. MGMT.

No. 85-7639.

799 F.2d 1473 (1986)

BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES OF ALABAMA, INC., a corp. & E. Harrell Hammonds, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALABAMA DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL MGMT.; Leigh Pegues, as Director of the Ala. Dept. of Environmental Mgmt.; Dr. Dewey A. White, Jr., Bryce Scott Davis, Thomas R. DeBray, Dr. Claire B. Elliott, Dr. Cameron M. Vowell, J. Ernest Farnell, and Stanley Graves, as members of the Environmental Mgmt. Commission of the Ala. Dept. of Environmental Mgmt., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 22, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter R. Byars, Steiner, Crum & Baker, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert A. Huffaker, Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, Montgomery, Ala., for Dr. Dewey A. White, et al.

Mark Alan Peycke, Montgomery, Ala., for Alabama Dept. of Environmental Mgmt.

Before CLARK, Circuit Judge, HENDERSON, and WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is taken from the district court's dismissal of the plaintiffs' claim for declaratory relief as not ripe for adjudication. Upon consideration of both "the fitness of the issues for judicial decision" and "the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration," Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136, 149, 87 S.Ct. 1507, 1515, 18 L.Ed.2d...

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