PIT RIVER TRIBE v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

No. 13-16961.

793 F.3d 1147 (2015)

PIT RIVER TRIBE; Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defense; Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center; Save Medicine Lake Coalition; Medicine Lake Citizens for Quality Environment, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT; U.S. Department of the Interior; United States Forest Service; United States Department of Agriculture; Calpine Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 20, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason S. George (argued), Evan H. Stein (argued), Certified Law Students, Palo Alto, CA; Deborah Ann Sivas , Matthew J. Sanders , and Alicia E. Thesing , Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

David Taylor Shelledy (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, and Benjamin B. Wagner , United States Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for Defendants-Appellees Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior, United States Forest Service, and United States Department of Agriculture.

Rosemary Antonopoulos , Dublin, CA; Thomas L. Sansonetti , Holland & Hart LLP, Cheyenne, WY, for Defendant-Appellee Calpine Corporation.

Before: WILLIAM A. FLETCHER and MORGAN CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges, and ROSLYN O. SILVER, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

The Pit River Tribe and several regional environmental organizations (collectively Pit River) appeal from the district court's order granting judgment on the pleadings on Pit River's action challenging the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) continuation of 26 geothermal leases in northeastern California...

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