Maryland - National Capital Park and Planning Commission a Public Body Corporate v. U. S. Postal Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• commenting that an EIS to address the aesthetic considerations of a new post office was not required under NEPA “where the claim of NEPA application is focused on alleged [ajesthetic impact and the matters at hand pertain essentially to issues of individual and potentially diverse tastes”
• “an inability to solve the problem would not justify failure to write a detailed impact statement concerning effect on environment”
• denial of injunctive relief may be conjoined with conditions protective of the environment
• construction of mail facility in suburban Rochester and abandonment of downtown post office
• in reviewing environmental assessment court will ask whether agency decided not to issue EIS after a “hard look” at the problem rather than “bald conclusions, unaided by preliminary investigation”
• “Equitable remedies depend not only on a determination of legal rights and wrongs, but on such matters as laches, good (or bad) faith, and most important an appraisal of the public interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).