MICHIGAN v. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

No. 10 C 4457.

911 F.Supp.2d 739 (2012)

State of MICHIGAN, State of Wisconsin, State of Minnesota, State of Ohio, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Plaintiffs, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Intervenor-Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Defendants, City of Chicago, Coalition to Save Our Waterways, and Wendella Sightseeing Company, Inc., Intervenor-Defendants.

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

December 3, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia Rae Hirsch , Thomas J. Dawson , Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, Louis B. Reinwasser , Robert P. Reichel , Michigan Department of Attorney General, Lansing, MI, David Peter Iverson , Peter James Shaw , Steven M. Gunn , Minnesota Attorney General's Office, St. Paul, MN, Dale T. Vitale , Lee Ann Rabe , Office of the Attorney General, Columbus, OH, John Bartley DeLone , Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, for Plaintiffs.

William Rastetter , Olson, Bzdok & Howard, P.C., Traverse City, MI, for Intervenor-Plaintiff.

Maureen Elizabeth Rudolph , Matthew Michael Marinelli , Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ann Danson Navaro , U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cincinatti, OH, Kurt N. Lindland , United States Attorney's Office, Ronald Michael Hill , Alan J. Cook , Brendan George O'Connor , Ellen Marie Avery , Frederick M. Feldman , Lisa Luhrs Draper , Margaret Theresa Conway , Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.

Mortimer Parker Ames , Diane M. Pezanoski , City of Chicago, Law Department Corporation Counsel, David L. Rieser , Much Shelist, P.C., Kathleen Mary Cunniff , McGuirewoods , Stuart Philip Krauskopf , Kurt Ausman Kauffman , Michael A. Schnitzer , The Law Offices of Stuart P. Krauskopf, Chicago, IL, for Intervenor-Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOHN J. THARP, JR., District Judge.

A group of states bordering the Great Lakes seeks an order requiring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago ("District") to take action — including immediately creating physical barriers in the waterways connecting Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River Basin — to prevent bighead and silver carp (collectively...

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