United States Eleventh Circuit

In a lawsuit disputing the allocation of water for municipal and industrial use, the district court abused its discretion in finding that plaintiffs had met the requirements for the issuance of a preliminary injunction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2005
• Published 09/20/2005

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and GEORGE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew H. Lembke, Joel M. Kuehnert, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Wiliam S. Cox, III, W. Larkin Radney, IV, Nikaa Baugh Jordan, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, James T. Banks, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Christopher M. Kise, FL Sol. Gen., Jonathan Alan Glogau, Tallahassee, FL, Parker D. Thomson, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Miami, FL, Donald G. Blankenau, Fennemore Craig, PC, Lincoln, NE, Richard Craig Kneisel, William Duncan Little, Montgomery, AL, Lauren James Caster, Fennemore Craig, P.C., Phoenix, AZ, Stephen E. O'Day, Andrew McFee Thompson, Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta, GA, for Alabama and Florida., David Acton Fitzgerald, Edward McGrath, Clinton A. Vince, Sullivan & Worcester, LLP, Washington, DC, James H. Curry, Autry, Horton & Cole, LLP, Tucker, GA, for Amicus Curiae., Lewis B. Jones, Patricia T. Barmeyer, Randy J. Butterfield, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael T. Gray, Robert H. Oakley, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Nat. Res. Div., App. Sec., Washington, DC, William Middleton Droze, Troutman Sanders, LLP, R. Todd Silliman, Bruce Perrin Brown, McKenna, Long & Aldridge, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.