DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY v. HUEBSCH

No. 20-1350.

969 F.3d 742 (2020)

DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY and Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael HUEBSCH, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Appeal of: American Transmission Company LLC, et al., Intervenors-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 11, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Paul Hurley , Attorney, Hurley Burish, S.C., Madison, WI, Howard A. Learner , Attorney, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Lisa Agrimonti , Attorney, Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, MN, Mary Beall , Brian H. Potts , David Zoppo, Esq. , Attorneys, Perkins Coie LLP, Madison, WI, Jeffrey L. Landsman , Attorney, Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson, Madison, WI, for Appellants American Transmission Company LLC, and ATC Management, Inc.

Lisa Agrimonti , Attorney, Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, MN, Jeffrey L. Landsman , Attorney, Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson, Madison, WI, Brian H. Potts , Perkins Coie LLP, Madison, WI, for Appellant Dairyland Power Cooperative.

Lisa Agrimonti , John Pavelko , Haley Waller Pitts , Attorneys, Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, MN, Jeffrey L. Landsman , Attorney, Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson, Madison, WI, Brian H. Potts , Perkins Coie LLP, Madison, WI, for Appellant ITC Midwest, LLC.

Drew S. Jelinski , Attorney, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Flaum and Rovner, Circuit Judges.


The Wisconsin Public Service Commission issued a permit authorizing the construction of a $500 million electricity transmission line in southwestern Wisconsin. Two environmental groups sued the Commission to invalidate the permit. The permit holders moved to intervene to protect their interest in the permit; without it the power...

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