VIEUX CARRE PROP. OWNERS RESIDENTS v. BROWN

No. 93-3344.

40 F.3d 112 (1994)

VIEUX CARRE PROPERTY OWNERS RESIDENTS AND ASSOCIATIONS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lloyd Kent BROWN, Colonel, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 19, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Logan, James G. Derbes, Cornelius, Sartin & Murphy, New Orleans, LA, for appellant.

Elizabeth S. Merritt, Osborne, McComiskey & Gobert, Washington, DC, Christopher Gobert, Metairie, LA, for amicus.

Jill L. Ondrejko, New Orleans, LA, Elizabeth A. Peterson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for appellee.

Before REAVLEY and JONES, Circuit Judges, and JUSTICE, District Judge.


EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

The City of New Orleans' Vieux Carre Commission, the New Orleans City Planning Commission, and the New Orleans City Council all approved the site for a world-class aquarium and riverfront park in 1987. That year a group of landowners in the Vieux Carre National Historic Landmark District — the French Quarter — disgruntled with the "historic impact" of the project, filed suit to arrest its construction. Relying on the Rivers...

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