MICHIGAN COALITION v. GRIEPENTROG

No. 91-1801.

954 F.2d 1174 (1992)

MICHIGAN COALITION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL USERS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerry GRIEPENTROG, Director of the Nevada Department of Human Resources; Christine Gregoire, Director of the Washington Department of Ecology; John P. Pate, Chairman of the South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 24, 1992.

Order February 14, 1992.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Cooper, David R. Lewis, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, D.C., Max R. Hoffman, Jr., Richard C. Kraus (argued and briefed), Farhat, Story & Kraus, Charles R. Toy, Michael S. Green, House Republican Programs & Policies, Lansing, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.

David J. Bloss, Roberts, Betz & Bloss, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants-appellants.

Frankie Sue Del Papa, Nancy Ford Angres, Atty. Gen.'s Office, Dept. of Human Resources, Carson City, Nev., for defendant-appellant Griepentrog.

Allen T. Miller, Jr. (argued and briefed), Kenneth O. Eikenberry (briefed), Atty. Gen.'s Office, State of Wash., Olympia, Wash., for defendant-appellant Gregoire.

Walton J. McLeod, III, Samuel L. Finklea, III (argued), Dept. of Health & Environmental Control, Office of General Counsel, T. Travis Medlock, James Patrick Hudson, Atty. Gen.'s Office, Columbia, S.C., for defendant-appellant Pate.

Before MARTIN and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Three state officials from Nevada, Washington, and South Carolina appeal the district court's permanent injunction that required those states to accept low-level radioactive waste generated in Michigan. 769 F.Supp. 999. An opinion addressing the issue of the stay in this case was issued on September 24, 1991 and is reported at 945 F.2d 150 (6th Cir.1991).<...

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