State of UTAH; Utah School and Institutional Lands Administration; and Utah Association of Counties, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Gale NORTON, Secretary of the Interior; Kathleen Clark, Director of the Bureau of Land Management; and Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees,
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; The Wilderness Society; Arizona Wilderness Alliance; Friends of Nevada Wilderness; Natural Resources Defense Council; Biodiversity Conservation Alliance; California Wilderness Coalition; Idaho Conservation League; New Mexico Wilderness Alliance; and Colorado Environmental Coalition, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants.
Hon. Bruce Babbitt, Michael "Mike" Dombeck, Patrick Shea, Jim Baca, Ed Hastey, Jim Ruch, Mathew Millenbach, Martha Hahn, and Bob Buffington; National Wildlife Federation; New Mexico Wildlife Federation; Idaho Wildlife Federation; Wyoming Wildlife Federation; Far Out Expeditions; Bruce Hucko; Professors of Natural Resources Law; Gregory Alan Hicks, Professor; Robert B. Keiter, Professor; Blueribbon Coalition and Utah Shared Access Alliance; Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, Amici Curiae.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 8, 2005.
February 8, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James S. Angell, Earthjustice (Edward B. Zukoski and Eric Biber, Earthjustice, Denver, CO; Stephen H.M. Bloch and Heidi J. McIntosh, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants.
Constance E. Brooks, C.E. Brooks & Associates, PC (Michael B. Marinovich, C.E. Brooks & Associates, PC, Denver CO; Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, J. Mark Ward, Assistant Attorney General, and John W. Andrews, Special Assistant Attorney General, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Todd S. Aagaard, Attorney, (Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, and Paul B. Smyth, of Counsel, U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, D.C. with him on the brief) Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.
Laurens H. Silver, Mill Valley, CA, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, Bruce Babbitt, Michael Dombeck, Patrick Shea, Jim Baca, Ed Hastey, Jim Ruch, Mathew Millenbach, and Martha Hahn, Bob Buffington in support of Appellants.
David A. Churchill, Jenner & Block, LLP; Kathy C. Weinberg, Dallas, TX; Amanda S. Amert, Chicago, IL, filed a brief for Amicus Curiae, Professors Gregory Alan Hicks and Robert B. Keiter.
Brian B. O'Neill, Richard A. Duncan, Jonathan W. Dettmann, and Craig S. Coleman, Faegre and Benson, LLP, Minneapolis, MN, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, Professors of National Resources Law in support of Appellants.
Michael Saul and Thomas D. Lustig, National Wildlife Federation, Boulder, CO, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, National Wildlife Federation, New Mexico Wildlife Federation, Idaho Wildlife Federation, Wyoming Wildlife Federation, Far Out Expeditions, and Bruce Hucko, in support of Appellants.
Andrew Bremner, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, Denver, CO, filed a brief for Amicus Curiae, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Paul A. Turcke, Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke, Chartered, Boise, ID, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, BlueRibbon Coalition and Utah Shared Access Alliance, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Before BRISCOE, MURPHY, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Wilderness Society, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Arizona Wilderness Alliance, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, and Colorado Environmental Coalition (collectively SUWA), and the National Resources Defense Council, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, California Wilderness Coalition, and Idaho Conservation League (collectively NRDC), all of whom are intervenors in the original action, appeal the district...
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