United States Fifth Circuit

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) do not require the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to cease federal funding for a revitalization project in the City of New Orleans until the agency completes further evaluation of the project's environmental and historic preservation impacts where the HUD did not act arbitrarily, capriciously or contrary to law in its study, consideration, and findings regarding the project's environmental impacts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/18/2006
• Published 09/19/2006

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and KING and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James R. Logan, IV (argued), Logan & Soileau, George Hugh Penn, Law Offices of George H. Penn, William E. Borah, Camille Jones Strachan, New Orleans, LA, Michael Stephen Rolland (argued), Law Offices of Michael S. Rolland, Metairie, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Jennifer Lynn Scheller (argued), Todd Steven Aagaard, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Jackson., Henry W. Kinney, III (argued), Tara Elizabeth Clement, Kinney & Ellinghausen, New Orleans, LA, Glenn L. Unterberger, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, PA, for Housing Authority of New Orleans., Bruce A. Morrison, Great Rivers Environmental Law Ctr., St. Louis, MO, for Great Rivers Envir. Law Ctr., Amicus Curiae., Elizabeth Sherrill Merritt (argued), Nat. Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, for American Planning Ass'n, Nat. Trust for Historic Preservation in the U.S., Sierra Club and Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Amici Curiae., Gary J. Elkins, Yvonne Chalker, Elkins & Associates, New Orleans, LA, Richard Louis Traina, Seale & Ross, Hammond, LA, for Historic Restoration Inc.