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CHESTER RESIDENTS FOR QUALITY LIVING v. SEIF

Civil Action No. 96-3960.

944 F.Supp. 413 (1996)

CHESTER RESIDENTS CONCERNED FOR QUALITY LIVING, et al. v. James M. SEIF, in his capacity as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

November 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Churchill, Jerome Balter, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Gilbert Paul Carrasco, Villanova University, Villanova Law School, Villanova, PA, for Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Zulene Mayfield, Cathy Morse, Ossie Morse, King McDonald, Angela McDonald, Carlene P. Stevenson, Louis S. Morse, Rick Otten, Linda Morse Rothwell, Arthur H. Rothwell, III, Margarita Santiago, Ricardo Santiago, Daniel Murphy, Janet Weiss, Reagan Otten, Renee D. Dale, Frances Rothwell, Lisa Gilliam.

Mark L. Freed, Comm. of Pa-Dept. of Environmental Resources, Conshohocken, PA, for James M. Seif, The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Carol R. Collier, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection — Southeast Region.

Mark L. Gross, Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for U.S.

MEMORANDUM

DALZELL, District Judge.

This case arises out of the process defendants employ to issue permits for the construction of waste facilities. In particular, at issue is their grant of a waste facility permit to Soil Remediation Services, Inc., to open such a facility in the City of Chester, a community in southeastern Pennsylvania with a predominantly African-American population.1 Compl. at ¶ 21.

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