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Article: In Memory of Judge David Mazzone.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Conservation Matters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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ON OCTOBER 25, NEW ENGLAND LOST ONE of its greatest environmental heroes in Judge A. David Mazzone. It was in Mazzone's courtroom that CLF argued some of the most important federal cases in the organization's history: lawsuits that prevented oil and gas drilling on Georges Bank, cleaned up Boston Harbor, and took major steps toward ending overfishing in New England.
"Judge Mazzone's judicial handiwork is all over the great environmental success stories in the region. He leaves behind a greater environmental legacy than perhaps any judge in New England," says Peter Shelley, CLF's ...