NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION and Norfolk Southern Marine Services, Inc. and
Lamberts Point Barge Co., Inc., Coastal Barge Corporation, Coal Logistics Corporation and Coastal Carriers Corporation
v.
Charles M. OBERLY, III, and John E. Wilson, III, Secretary of Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, State of Delaware, Delaware Saltwater Sportfishing Association, Inc., Kent County Levy Court, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., National Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, Intervening Defendants.
Appeal of NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION, Norfolk Southern Marine Services, Inc., Lamberts Point Barge Company, Inc., Coastal Barge Corporation, Coal Logistics Corporation, and Coastal Carriers Corporation.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued February 9, 1987.
Decided June 30, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jeffrey S. Berlin (argued), David E. Menotti, Russell E. Pommer, Mark J. Andrews, William F. Pedersen, Mark E. Martin, Donna L. Isaacks, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered, Washington, D.C., David S. Swayze, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Wilmington, Del., Robert J. Katzenstein, Lassen, Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, Wilmington, Del. A. Gayle Jordan, Norfolk Southern Corp., Norfolk, Va., for appellants.
Fred S. Silverman, State Solicitor, Regina M. Mullen (argued), John J. Polk, Deputy Attys. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del., for appellees.
Lynne T. Edgerton (argued), Sarah Chasis, Donald S. Strait, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Joel B. Harris, William J.J. Cullen, Thacher Proffitt & Wood, New York City, for intervening defendants-appellees.
Edward W. Cooch, Jr., Cooch & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., Gregory A. Inskip, Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for Delaware Wild Lands, Inc. and Delaware Nature Edu., Society, Inc. as Amici Curiae.
David C. Slade, Coastal States Organization, Washington, D.C., for the States of Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, and The Coastal States Organization as amici curiae.
Anthony G. Flynn, Counsel to the Governor, Office of the Governor, Dover, Del., for the U.S. Congressional Delegation From The State of Delaware and the Governor of Delaware as amici curiae.
James W. Patterson, Rubin, Quinn & Moss, Philadelphia, Pa., for Concerned U.S. Senators, Paul S. Trible, Jr. and John W. Warner, and Representatives, Frederick C. Boucher, Herbert B. Bateman, Alan B. Mollohan, Nick Joe Rahall, II, Norman Sisisky, and Harley O. Staggers, Jr. as amici curiae.
John K. Van De Kamp, Atty. Gen. of California, N. Gregory Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., John A. Saurenman, Deputy Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for the State of California acting by and through the California Coastal Com'n as amicus curiae.
William C. Carpenter, Jr., U.S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., F. Henry Habicht II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Arthur E. Gowran, Ann S. Almy, Attorneys, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the U.S. as amicus curiae.
G. William Frick, James K. Jackson, Philip A. Cooney, Washington, D.C., for American Petroleum Institute as amicus curiae.
D. Donald Jamieson, Gary L. Azorsky, Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe, Cramer & Jamieson, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Delaware River Port Authority as amicus curiae.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges, and CONABOY, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
OPINION OF THE COURT
STAPLETON, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, six co-venturers seeking to initiate a coal lightering service in Delaware Bay, claim that § 7003 of the Delaware Coastal Zone Act (CZA), which bans bulk product transfer facilities in Delaware's coastal zone, violates the dormant Commerce Clause. Appellees, two Delaware officials and five intervenors, argue that the federal Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), under which the § 7003 ban...
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