United States Second Circuit

Appellant violated the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 by adding two floats to his dock in a navigable New York canal, without a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; the Army Corps did not delegate its permitting authority to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2002
• Decided 05/16/2002
• Published 05/16/2002

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, SACK, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Theodore Angell, pro se, Riverhead, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Kevan Cleary, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Deborah B. Zwany, Stanley N. Alpert, of counsel, for Alan Vinegrad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York), for Plaintiff-Appellee.