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SIERRA CLUB v. DEPT. OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

No. 89-CA-0184.

557 So.2d 418 (1990)

SIERRA CLUB, et al. v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied March 21, 1990.

Writ Denied May 25, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Osborne and Christopher Gobert, Osborne & McComiskey, New Orleans, for plaintiffs/appellees.

James A. Burton, Susan F. Clade, and J. Thomas Hamrick, Jr., Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, Baton Rouge, for Dravo Basic Materials Co., Inc., intervenor and appellant.

Before GARRISON, CIACCIO and BECKER, JJ.

BECKER, Judge.

This appeal arises from a long standing struggle between the Sierra Club, an environmental conservationist group and the shell dredging industry represented in this case by Dravo Basic Materials Company (Dravo). In March of 1983 the Sierra Club filed the present suit to declare illegal certain leases between Dravo and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries because they awarded to Dravo the right to remove shells and shell deposits from the...

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