UOP v. U.S.

No. 95-15889.

99 F.3d 344 (1996)

UOP, a General Partnership, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 31, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan M. Pepin, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellant.

Ralph B. Sievwright and N. Douglas Grimwood, Twitty, Sievwright & Mills, Phoenix, AZ, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: CANBY and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.


FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:

The United States and Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior,1 appeal from the district court's judgment which reversed a decision of the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA). The Board had upheld a decision of the Bureau of Land Management, which had declared the mining claims of UOP, Inc. null and void ab initio because the public records showed that title to the mineral rights in the subject lands are in...

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