TagAirport Communities Coalition(272)
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2003-08-18Airport Communities Coalition v. Graves, 280 F. Supp. 2d 1207 (W.D. Wash. 2003)
A U.S. District Court ruling from August 18, 2003, in the Western District of Washington at Seattle, in which Judge Rothstein granted defendants' motions for summary judgment and denied plaintiff's motion. The case involved the Airport Communities Coalition suing Colonel Ralph H. Graves and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with the Port of Seattle, relevant to Sea-Tac Airport development and permitting issues. -
2003-07-22Brief of amicus curiae State of Washington
The State of Washington filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a 2003 federal case concerning the Port of Seattle's proposed third runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The case centered on whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was required to include all conditions set by the Washington State Department of Ecology in its Clean Water Act Section 404 permit, after a state appeals board added sixteen conditions to the original water quality certification. Washington argued that federal law gives states sole authority to enforce their own water quality standards on federally permitted projects, and that the Corps improperly ignored nine of those sixteen conditions. -
2003-07-03Documents catalogued as published in 2003
This is a library catalog page listing five legal and regulatory documents from 2003 related to environmental permitting and litigation. The documents include an NPDES water discharge permit (No. WA-002465-1) issued by the Department of Energy, and three entries related to a legal case (ACC v. Colonel Graves) involving a Section 404 appeal and motions for summary judgement filed through the Army Corps of Engineers. A comment letter on the NPDES Draft Permit is also catalogued. -
Wasson quits Des Moines council, admits wrongdoing
DES MOINES — Embattled City Councilman Don Wasson resigned last night, acknowledging wrongdoing in a Public Disclosure Commission case involving charges that he and a local businessman concealed $49,000 in campaign contributions. Wasson, the subject of a recall campaign, had previously stepped down as mayor but said he intended to remain a member of the -
2003-01-17Plot alleged to elect 3rd-runway supporters – Election watchdog links businessman’s $49,000 with mayor
Des Moines Mayor Don Wasson was charged by Washington State's Public Disclosure Commission with concealing $49,000 in illegal campaign contributions from local businessman Hank Hopkins, who stood to profit from a third-runway construction contract at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The funds allegedly helped elect three pro-runway City Council members in 2001, after which Wasson was named mayor and the council voted to cut the city's $150,000 funding to the anti-runway Airport Communities Coalition. Wasson denied the charges, but investigators confronted him with an endorsed check he had initially claimed not to have received. -
2003-01-17
Plot alleged to elect 3rd-runway supporters – Election watchdog links businessman’s $49,000 with mayor
Seattle Times article by Bob Young and Michael Ko reporting Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) charges against Des Moines Mayor Don Wasson and businessman Hank Hopkins for concealing $49,000 in campaign contributions to elect pro-third-runway candidates Gary Petersen, Richard Benjamin, and Maggie Steenrod to the Des Moines City Council in the November 2001 election. PDC alleges -
2002-11-07PCHB 01-160: README — Airport Communities Coalition v. Ecology & Port Of Seattle, CD Volume Index and Instructions
This document is a readme guide for a set of CD volumes containing court records from the King County Superior Court case Airport Communities Coalition v. Ecology & Port of Seattle (Case No. 02-2-25658-9SEA), a legal dispute related to Sea-Tac Airport. The CDs include scanned exhibits, indexes, and supporting files organized across 24 boxes, with Word documents containing hyperlinks to the PDF exhibits. Users are instructed to copy all files to a single local folder to ensure the hyperlinks function correctly. -
2002-11-07PCHB 01-160: ACC v. Ecology & Port Of Seattle — Administrative Record Correction Notice (TRN0009056600)
Correction notice for King County Superior Court Cause No. 02-2-25658-9SEA, PCHB 01-160, Airport Communities Coalition v. Ecology & Port Of Seattle. An error was detected in the Administrative Record file TRN0009056600.pdf within BOX24; a portion of the document range was omitted. The corrected complete file is supplied on CD-ROM with instructions to drag-and-drop the replacement -
2002-10-23EXH AR044222: Court of Appeals Order Granting Motion for Reconsideration in Part and Amending Opinion — ACC et al. v. Port Of Seattle et al., No. 43100-5-I
Washington Court of Appeals Division One order granting in part Port Of Seattle’s motion for reconsideration of the November 15, 1999 opinion in No. 43100-5-I. Parties include City of Des Moines, City of Burien, City of Federal Way, City of Normandy Park, City of Tukwila, Highline School District No. 401, Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) as -
2002-10-23EXH AR038735: Interlocal Agreement, Airport Communities Coalition
Interlocal Agreement establishing the Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) under the Interlocal Cooperation Act (RCW Chapter 39.34), signed by the cities of Normandy Park, Des Moines, Burien, Federal Way, and Tukwila, each a Washington Municipal Corporation. The agreement opposes construction of a third runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, opposes increased air traffic at Boeing Field, seeks