VIEUX CARRE PROPERTY OWNERS, RESIDENTS & ASSOCIATES, INC. v. BROWN

No. 87-3854.

875 F.2d 453 (1989)

VIEUX CARRE PROPERTY OWNERS, RESIDENTS & ASSOCIATES, INC., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Colonel Lloyd Kent BROWN, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver A. Houck, New Orleans, La., for amicus curiae Louisiana Council.

James R. Logan, IV, James G. Derbes, Derbes, Waldrup & Thompson, New Orleans, La., for Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents & Associates, Inc.

Patricia B. Rittiner, Covington, La., pro se.

John H. Beisner, Elizabeth S. Merritt, Nat. Trust for Historic Preservation, David A. Doheny, Rebecca K. Troth, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Nat. Trust.

Richard J. McGinity, New Orleans, La., for Bd. of Com'rs of New Orleans Levee Dist.

Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Martin W. Matzen, Justice Dept., Washington, D.C., for Col. Brown.

Charles M. Lanier, Sheila T. Walet, New Orleans, La., for Bd. of Com'rs.

Henry W. Kinney, III, John W. Ellinghausen, Kinney & Marshall, New Orleans, La., for Audobon Park Com'rs.

Mark Gallinghouse, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for Col. Lloyd Kent Brown.

Phillip A. Wittmann, Steven W. Usdin, Okla Jones, II, Eleanor K. Roemer, New Orleans, La., for Audobon Park Com'rs and City of New Orleans.

Before POLITZ, GARWOOD, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

This dispute focuses the Court's attention on a private plaintiff's enforcement of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) against the United States Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps). Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents & Associates, Inc. (the Vieux Carre), the plaintiffs-appellants in this case, is made up of landowners within the Vieux Carre National Historic Landmark District —...

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