Fla. Wildlife Fed'n Inc. v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs

摘要

Environmental groups could not bring claims alleging U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' management of three locks on Florida cross-state channel violated Florida Water Resources Act and Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Act regulations, and thus Clean Water Act requirement to comply with applicable state law, because: (1) Florida Water Management District that is integrally involved in corps' management of channel system is required party under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19(a), (2) district is indispensable party under 19(b) without which claims must be dismissed, and (3) district invoked its sovereign immunity under 11th Amendment of U.S. Constitution.