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CHIHUAHUAN GRASSLANDS ALLIANCE v. KEMPTHORNE

No. 07-2183.

545 F.3d 884 (2008)

CHIHUAHUAN GRASSLANDS ALLIANCE, Plaintiff, and New Mexico Wilderness Alliance; Sky Island Alliance, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dirk KEMPTHORNE, in his official capacity as the United States Secretary of Interior; Linda S.C. Rundell, in her official capacity as the New Mexico Director of the Bureau of Land Management; Bureau of Land Management, a bureau within the Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Ordered Published October 28, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erik Schlenker-Goodrich of Western Environmental Law Center, Taos, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Aaron Avila, Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Ronald J. Tenpas, Assistant Attorney General, John S. Most and John A. Bryson, Attorneys, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Arthur Arguedas, Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Santa Fe, NM, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MURPHY, BRORBY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

BRORBY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) sale of oil and gas mineral leases on public lands in a grasslands area, commonly known as the Nutt Grasslands, located in south-central New Mexico. Appellants New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Sky Island Alliance (Appellants)1 brought a civil suit against various federal agencies, including the BLM, and officials representing those agencies...

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