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· 11/16/1970

Nazario v. New York

Citations

  • 400 U.S. 920
  • 91 S. Ct. 179

How courts have described this case

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

  • applying same test to local bridge in determining that it was not segmented improperly from a federal project
  • stating that in order to have “major federal action,” a federal agency’s authority to influence “must be more than the power to give nonbinding advice to the nonfederal actor ... the federal agency must possess actual power to control the nonfederal activity”
  • noting the same problem in another case involving a highway project
  • \ 'Congress has not purported to apply NEPA requirements to [e]very highway that connects with a federally-funded highway' \
  • State’s voluntary request that FHWA approve an EIS for at state-funded project does not federalize the project
  • “‘Congress has not purported to apply NEPA requirements to [ejvery highway that connects with a federally-funded highway’ ”

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Judges: Are, Black, Granted, Should

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