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· 2/27/1987

The Eagle Foundation, Inc. v. Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Transportation

Citations

  • 813 F.2d 798
  • 17 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20912
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 2765

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that Supreme Court in Overton Park was being emphatic with use of term “unique”
  • stating that “reasons for using protected land have to be good ones, pressing ones, well thought out”
  • examining Overton Park against backdrop of section 4(f)’s language and concluding that an agency’s “reasons for using the protected land have to be good ones, pressing ones, well thought out”
  • “Overton Park was being emphatic, not substituting ‘unique’ for ‘prudent’ in the text of § 4(f).”

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Judges: Coffey, Easterbrook, Grant

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