STRONG v. CONSERVATION COMMISSION

(14611)

226 Conn. 227 (1993)

WILLIAM STRONG ET AL. v. CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE TOWN OF OLD LYME ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released July 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Mattern, for the appellant (named defendant).

John S. Bennet, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Joseph Rubin and David H. Wrinn, assistant attorneys general, filed a brief for the commissioner of environmental protection as amicus curiae.

PETERS, C. J., CALLAHAN, BORDEN, KATZ and PALMER, JS.


PER CURIAM.

In this appeal concerning a conservation commission's denial of an inland wetlands application, we granted a petition for certification to consider whether the Appellate Court had improperly placed on the commission the burden of establishing that no feasible and prudent alternative existed to the plaintiff's application.1 We dismiss the appeal on the ground that certification was improvidently granted.

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