GREAT BASIN MINE WATCH v. HANKINS

No. 04-16125.

456 F.3d 955 (2006)

GREAT BASIN MINE WATCH, and Mineral Policy Center, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Helen HANKINS, United States Department of the Interior, and Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees, Newmont USA Limited, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 1, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Flynn, Jeffrey C. Parsons, Western Mining Action Project, Boulder, CO; Nicole U. Rinke, Western Mining Action Project, Reno, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas L. Sansonetti, Andrew Mergen, John E. Arbab, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

Scott W. Hardt, Temkin Wielga & Hardt LLP, Denver, CO, for the intervenor-appellee.

Before J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

Great Basin Mine Watch and the Mineral Policy Center (collectively, Great Basin) appeal from the district court's summary judgment on their claims against the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (collectively, Bureau). Great Basin alleged that the Bureau's approval of two gold mining permits to the Newmont Mining Corporation (Newmont) violated, inter alia,...

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