Sierra Club v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior
This text of 509 F.2d 533 (Sierra Club v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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ORDER
On consideration of appellants’ motion for a limited injunction pending appeal, and it appearing from the Secretary’s answer to Plaintiffs’ Revised Supplemental Interrogatory No. 31 that the Secretary is in the process of approving or disapproving the mining plans and railroad rights-of-way set forth in the Eastern Powder River Coal Basin Environmental Impact Statement and that such an injunction is required to maintain the status quo pending disposition of this appeal, it is
[534]*534Ordered by this court that the aforesaid motion is granted, and it is
Further ordered by this court that the Secretary of the Interior take no action concerning the mining plans and railroad rights-of-way set forth in the Eastern Powder River Coal Basin Environmental Impact Statement pending further order of this court.
Circuit Judge MacKINNON dissents for the reasons set forth in his attached opinion.
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