ELR Citation: ELR 20053
No(s). s. 20344, 20345 (6th Cir. Sep 29, 1970)

Highway opponents' allegations that the Secretary of Transportation had failed to make decisions regarding the location and design of a federally funded highway in a public park in the manner prescribed by 49 U.S.C. §1653(f) and 23 U.S.C. §138 and that these decisions were in any event unreasonable, were not supported by the evidence, and the trial court's grant of defendent's summary judgment motion in an action to enjoin the Secretary's release of highway funds  was justified.

Counsel for Citizens to Preserve Overton Park:
John W. Vardaman, Jr.
Norman M. Sinel Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
900 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 296-8800

Charles Forrest Newman Burch, Porter & Johnson
Court Square Building
128 Court Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 527-6385

Counsel for John Volpe:
Erwin N. Griswold Solicitor General
L. Patrick Gray, III Assistant Attorney General
Wm. Bradford Reynolds Assistant to the Solicitor General
Alan S. Rosenthal
Daniel Joseph Attorneys
Department of Justice Washington, DC
(202) 739-2201; 739-8200

Counsel for Defendant-Appellee Speight, Tennessee Commissioner of Highways:
J. Alan Hanover Hanover, Walsh, Barnes & Jalenak
219 Adams Avenue
Memphis, TN 38101
(901) 526-0621

Before: WEICK, CELEBREZZE, and PECK, Circuit Judges.