Case Name: SIERRA CLUB et al., Appellants, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1975-01-03
Citations: 509 F.2d 533
Docket Number: No. 74-1389
Parties: SIERRA CLUB et al., Appellants, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 509
Pages: 533–536

Head Matter:
SIERRA CLUB et al., Appellants, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, et al.
No. 74-1389.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued Dec. 17, 1974.
Decided Jan. 3, 1975.
Bruce J. Terris and Suellen T. Keiner, Washington, D.C., for appellants.
Raymond N. Zagone, Edmund B. Clark, Wallace H. Johnson, Jacques B. Gelin, U.S. Dept, of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellee.
Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
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
Ordered 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.