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UNITED STATES v. FLORIDA-VANDERBILT DEVELOP. CORP.

Civ. A. No. 71-369.

326 F.Supp. 289 (1971)

The UNITED STATES of America, Qui Tam, George C. Matthews, Plaintiff, v. FLORIDA-VANDERBILT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Florida.

April 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., and George Kokus, Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for the United States.

Robert Amos, Dept. of the Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, Fla., for the Army.

P. A. Pacyna, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lakeland, Fla., for the State.

Thomas B. DeWolf, of Helliwell, Melrose & DeWolf, Miami, Fla., for Florida-Vanderbilt and Tri-County Engineering.

ORDER ON DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS TO DISMISS

ATKINS, District Judge.

Concerned citizens throughout the United States have been seeking novel legal remedies in an effort to prevent environmental destruction. The use of the qui tam action to enforce the provisions of Sections 407 and 411 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (Title 33, United States Code) has been recently "discovered" by many citizens and conservation groups. In each instance known to this...

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