HUDSON RIVER FISHERMEN'S ASS'N v. WESTCHESTER CTY.

No. 87 Civ. 1575 (GLG).

686 F.Supp. 1044 (1988)

HUDSON RIVER FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, Andrew O'Rourke, County Executive, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

May 26, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lower Hudson Legal Services, Inc., White Plains, N.Y. (Robert F. Kennedy, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Rosenman & Colin, New York City by Martin S. Baker, Marc E. Kasowitz, Hector Torres, Margaret M. Harding, for defendants.


OPINION

GOETTEL, District Judge:

Last year this country was treated to the spectacle of a New York garbage barge shuttling up and down the east coast in an effort to locate a receptive host for its odious cargo. The ensuing fiasco dramatized what surely is to become an increasingly difficult and testy political question in the 1990's and beyond—what is this country going to do about its solid and hazardous waste?

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