MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION v. ANDRUS

No. C78-165B.

499 F.Supp. 383 (1980)

MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION, a non-profit Colorado corporation, on behalf of its members, Plaintiff, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; and Robert W. Bergland, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

October 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kea Bardeen and James G. Watt, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver, Colo., David B. Kennedy, Kennedy, Connor & Healy, Sheridan, Wyo., for plaintiff.

Gerald S. Fish, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Charles E. Graves, U. S. Atty., D. Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyo., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

BRIMMER, District Judge.

This case involves areas of over one million acres in the Western Overthrust Belt in non-wilderness portions of United States forests in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, on which oil and gas lease applications have been pending several years without action by the Secretary of the Interior who referred the applications to the Secretary of Agriculture for a recommendation...

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