SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE v. PALMA

No. 11-4094.

707 F.3d 1143 (2013)

SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE; Natural Resources Defense Council; The Wilderness Society; National Parks Conservation Association; Grand Canyon Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Juan PALMA, in his official capacity as Director of the Bureau of Land Management Utah Sate Office; Bureau of Land Management; United States Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, and Kirkwood Oil and Gas, LLC; William C. Kirkwood, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 8, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H.M. Bloch of Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT ( David Garbett of Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT; and Sharon Buccino of Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington D.C., with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jeffrey E. Nelson , Assistant United States Attorney ( Carlie Christensen , United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants-Appellees.

William E. Sparks ( Bret A. Sumner with him on the brief) of Beatty & Wozniak, P.C., Denver, CO, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

Before LUCERO, SEYMOUR, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.


SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.

Several environmental groups1 (collectively referred to as "SUWA") challenge decisions made by the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") and the Interior Board of Land Appeals ("IBLA"). At issue is the legality of thirty-nine oil and gas leases in Southern Utah, owned by Kirkwood Oil and Gas, LLC and William C. Kirkwood (collectively "Kirkwood"). In the 1980s, Kirkwood applied...

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