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SIERRA CLUB, ILL. CHAPTER v. U.S. DEPT. OF TRANSP.

No. 96 C 4768.

962 F.Supp. 1037 (1997)

SIERRA CLUB, ILLINOIS CHAPTER, a California Not-for-Profit Corporation; South Corridor Against the Tollway, Inc., an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation; Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest, an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation; and Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Federico Pena, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration; Rodney Slater, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Michael A. Cook, Illinois Division Administrator, Federal Highway Administration; Kirk Brown, Secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation; and Julian D'Esposito, Chairman, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

January 16, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Louis Jones, Jr., Business & Professional People for the Public Interest, Howard Alan Learner, Robert Scott Michaels, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs.

Matthew David Tanner, United States Attorney's Office, Chicago, IL, Paul W. Schroeder, Vicki A. O'Meara, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Chicago, IL, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CONLON, District Judge.

The Illinois chapter of Sierra Club ("Sierra Club") and several other not-for-profit corporations (collectively "plaintiffs") sue a number of federal and state transportation agencies and officials (collectively "defendants"), alleging that defendants have failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA") (Count I), 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4370, and section 4(f) of the Transportation...

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