Pizitz, Inc., D/B/A Pizitz v. John A. Volpe, in His Representative Capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation
This text of 467 F.2d 208 (Pizitz, Inc., D/B/A Pizitz v. John A. Volpe, in His Representative Capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
This is an appeal from the refusal of the district court to enjoin substantial construction changes in an express highway artery at Huntsville, Alabama, on the alleged ground that the changes were being made without compliance with the applicable federal environmental statutes.
The weakness of the plaintiffs-appellants’ ease is that the work that was in process was a part of an approved design which, when it was approved, met all requirements. It contemplated each of the changes that are now being undertaken. While in some eases one might turn a sympathetic ear towards a contention that certain requirements of the national environmental protection act have retroactive application, it does not seem appropriate in a case like the present, as to which all standards required to be complied with had been completed when this specific project was originally approved.
The judgment is affirmed.
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