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U.S. v. METROPOLITAN DIST. COM'N.

No. 87-1956.

847 F.2d 12 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION, et al., Defendants, Appellees. Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Inc., Plaintiff, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Cleve Livingston, Boston, Mass., with whom Stephen Gockley was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

John M. Stevens with whom Foley, Hoag & Eliot and Marilyn L. Hotch, Acting Gen. Counsel, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellee Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

Douglas H. Wilkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellees Com. of Mass. and Metropolitan Dist. Com'n.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BREYER and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Dismayed by chronic pollution and by the unauthorized and illegal discharge of raw and inadequately-treated sewage into the waters of Boston Harbor, the neighboring city of Quincy, Massachusetts sued the Massachusetts District Commission (MDC), a state agency which operated the port. Quincy's suit, filed in a Massachusetts state court in January 1983, was soon expanded into a full-fledged effort to compel correction of the substandard conditions...

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