Denial Of Injunction Against Obama Presidential Library Affirmed By 7th Circuit

Mealey's (July 18, 2022, 2:24 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The contention of a group of Chicago residents that federal agencies tasked with reviewing the plan for the Barack Obama presidential library failed to consider the environmental effect of constructing the project in Jackson Park was rejected July 1 by a quorum of a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel that affirmed the trial court’s denial of a preliminary injunction, finding that the agencies did not have the authority to consider alternative locations....