SAVE OUR HERITAGE, INC. v. F.A.A.

No. 00-2340.

269 F.3d 49 (2001)

SAVE OUR HERITAGE, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, Respondent, and Shuttle America Corporation and Massachusetts Port Authority, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 23, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrea C. Ferster for petitioners.

Elizabeth S. Merritt, Associate General Counsel, Paul W. Edmondson, General Counsel, Anita C. Canovas, Assistant General Counsel, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Frances Gould, Special Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Neil T. Proto, Patricia A. Deem and Verner Liipfert Bernhard, McPherson and Hand on brief for National Trust for Historic Preservation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Honorable Congressman Marty Meehan, Historic Concord, Inc., and Freedom's Way Heritage Association, Amici Curiae.

M. Alice Thurston, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, with whom John C. Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, James C. Kilbourne, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, and Daphne A. Fuller, Manager, Environmental Law Branch, Federal Aviation Administration, were on brief for respondent.

Roscoe Trimmier, Jr. with whom Richard J. Lettieri, M. Concetta Burton, Amy E. Serino, Ropes & Gray, David S. Mackey, Ira M. Wallach and Michael P. Sady were on brief for intervenor Massachusetts Port Authority.

H. Bissell Carey, III, Clive D. Martin and Robinson & Cole LLP on brief for intervenor Shuttle America Corporation.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

The Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") authorized Shuttle America Airlines ("Shuttle America") to provide scheduled passenger service to New York's LaGuardia Airport ("LaGuardia") from Hanscom Field ("Hanscom"), a general aviation airport that lies 15 miles northwest of Boston abutting the towns of Bedford, Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln. The petitioners — two preservationist organizations, three of the four towns (Bedford is an intervenor...

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