City Of Carmel-By-The-Sea v. United States Department Of Transportation

95 F.3d 892 43 ERC 1586 , 65 USLW 2208 , 27 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,047, 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6847 , 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 11 ,209 CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA; Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District; Hatton Canyon Coalition; Sierra Club, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; Admiral James Busey; Federal Highway Administration; Thomas D. Larson; California Department of Transportation; James Van Loben Sels; Thomas L. Pollock; et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 94-16234. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 13, 1995. Decided Sept. 13, 1996. Rachel B. Hooper and Susannah T. French, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants. Martin W. Matzen and Joan M. Pepin, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, and Antonio R. Anziano, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Spencer Williams, Senior District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-92-20002 SW (PVT). Before NORRIS, BEEZER and TROTT, Circuit Judges. BEEZER, Circuit Judge: 1 This appeal arises from a proposed realignment of California State…