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ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND v. ALEXANDER

Nos. EC 77-53, 77-54-K.

501 F.Supp. 742 (1980)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, INC., Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural, Glenn H. Clemmer, G. Randall Grace, and F. Glenn Liming, Plaintiffs, National Audubon Society, Birmingham Audubon Society, and the Alabama Conservancy, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Clifford R. ALEXANDER, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and Major General John Morris, Defendants, Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, State of Alabama, and Tombigbee Valley Development Authority, Intervening Defendants. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD, Plaintiff, National Audubon Society, Birmingham Audubon Society, and the Alabama Conservancy, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Clifford R. ALEXANDER, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and Major General John Morris, Defendants, Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, State of Alabama, and Tombigbee Valley Development Authority, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, E. D.

October 1, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon T. Brown, Stephen E. Roady, Washington, D.C., Joseph V. Karaganis, Chicago, Ill., Joseph L. Lenihan, Louisville, Ky., James T. B. Tripp, New York City, William A. Butler, Stewart L. Udall, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Lewis K. Wise, Lawrence Maloney, Edward Christenburg, Glenn Whitaker, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., Ralph E. Pogue, Aberdeen, Miss., for the District.

Hunter M. Gholson, Columbus, Miss., for the Authority.

William L. Robertson, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Jane McIntire, Washington, D.C., Alfred P. Holmes, Jr., David H. Webb, Mobile Ala., for the Corps.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Jerry L. Weidler, William T. Stephens, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for Alabama.

Roger D. Feldman, Washington, D.C., for non-party, A. T. Kearney, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, Chief Judge.

This is another chapter in the saga of the ongoing controversy relating to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (TTW), a navigation project in Alabama and Mississippi which Congress authorized in 1946 and commenced funding in 1971.

On July 14, 1971, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. (EDF), Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural (CLEAN) and James D. Williams brought a class action on behalf of all...

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