NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL v. REILLY

Civ. A. No. 3:92CV50.

788 F.Supp. 268 (1992)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. William K. REILLY, In His Capacity as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

April 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willard Todd Benson, Press, Jones, Wechter & Stoneburner, Richmond, Va., Howard I. Fox, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, David D. Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C., for Natural Resources Defense Council/plaintiff and for Center for Auto Safety/plaintiff.

Mary Lloyd Sinnott, John Daniel Epps, Leclair, Ryan & Joynes, Richmond, Va., James Keith Ausbrook, R. Timothy Columbus, Michael D. Sherman, Collier, Shannon and Scott, Washington, D.C., for East Coast Oil Corporation/consolidated plaintiff and for Sheetz Incorporated/consolidated plaintiff.

Douglas W. Morris, Alice Crowe, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C., for American Petroleum Institute/consolidated plaintiff.

Debra Jean Prillaman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Richmond, Va., David J. Kaplan, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for William K. Reilly, Adm'r, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/defendant.

George A. Somerville, Anthony F. Troy, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, Va., Susan H. Longley, American Coalition for Traffic Safety, Inc., Washington, D.C., for American Coalition for Traffic Safety, Inc./amicus.

Thomas Earl Patton, Richard A. Penna, Jack D. Franks, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Washington, D.C., Charles H. Lockwood, Ass'n of Intern. Auto. Mfrs., Arlington, Va., for Ass'n of Intern. Auto. Mfrs., Inc./intervenor-defendant.

Kirk David McQuiddy, Ann Adams Webster, James W. Morris, III, Morris & Morris, Richmond, Va., Kenneth S. Geller, Erika Z. Jones, Evan M. Tager, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C., for Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n/intervenor-defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

RICHARD L. WILLIAMS, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the defendants' motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. For the reasons discussed below, the defendants' motion to dismiss will be GRANTED, and the case will be DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The plaintiffs filed suit against the Administrator of the...

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