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OKLAHOMA EX REL. EDMONDSON v. TYSON FOODS, INC.

No. 09-5134.

619 F.3d 1223 (2010)

State of OKLAHOMA, ex rel. W.A. Drew EDMONDSON, in his capacity as Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Secretary of the Office of Environment J.D. Strong in his capacity as the Trustee for Natural Resources for the State of Oklahoma, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TYSON FOODS, INC.; Tyson Poultry, Inc.; Tyson Chicken, Inc.; Cobb-Vantress, Inc.; George's, Inc.; George's Farms, Inc.; Peterson Farms, Inc.; Simmons Foods, Inc.; Cal-Maine Farms, Inc.; Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.; Cargill, Inc.; Cargill Turkey Production, LLC, Defendants-Appellees, Cherokee Nation, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 21, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Diane Hammons , Attorney General, ( Sara E. Hill , Assistant Attorney General, with her on the briefs), Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, OK, for Movant-Appellant.

Jay T. Jorgensen , Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C., ( Virginia A. Seitz , Thomas C. Green , Mark D. Hopson , Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C.; Robert W. George , Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Bryan Burns , Timothy T. Jones , Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, AR; Michael R. Bond , Kutak Rock LLP, Fayetteville, AR, with him on the briefs for Defendants-Appellees Tyson Foods, Inc., Tyson, Poultry, Inc., Tyson Chicken, Inc., and Cobb-Vantress, Inc.) ( Gary V. Weeks , Woodson W. Bassett III , James M. Graves , Vince Chadick , K.C. Dupps Tucker , Bassett Law Firm, Fayetteville, AR; Randall E. Rose , George W. Owens , Owens Law Firm, P.C., Tulsa, OK, with him on the briefs for Defendants-Appellees, George's, Inc. and George's Farms, Inc.) ( Robert P. Redemann , Perrine, McGivern, Redemann, Reid, Berry & Taylor, P.L.L.C., Tulsa, OK; Robert E. Sanders , Young Williams, P.A., Jackson, MS, with him on the briefs for Defendants-Appellees Cal-Maine Farms, Inc. and Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.) ( John H. Tucker , Theresa Noble Hill , Rhodes, Hieronymus, Jones, Tucker & Gable, PLLC, Tulsa, OK; Delmar R. Ehrich , Bruce Jones , Krisann C. Kleibacker Lee , Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, MN, with him on the briefs for Defendants-Appellees Cargill, Inc. and Cargill Turkey Production, Inc.) ( John R. Elrod , Vicki Bronson , Conner & Winters, L.L.P., Fayetteville, AR, with him on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee Simmons Foods, Inc.) ( A. Scott McDaniel , Nicole M. Longwell , Philip D. Hixon , McDaniel Hixon Longwell & Acord, PLLC, Tulsa, OK, with him on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee Peterson Farms, Inc.), for Defendants-Appellees.

Ingrid L. Moll , Motley Rice LLC, Hartford, CT, ( Frederick C. Baker , Motley Rice, LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC; Louis W. Bullock , Robert M. Blakemore , Bullock Bullock & Blakemore PLLC, Tulsa, OK; M. David Riggs , Richard T. Garren , Robert A. Nance , David P. Page , Sharon Gentry , Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis, Tulsa, OK, with her on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before TACHA, EBEL, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

HARTZ, Circuit Judge.

The Cherokee Nation (the Nation) appeals the district court's denial of its motion to intervene in a dispute between the State of Oklahoma (the State) and Defendants-Appellees (collectively, Tyson). The State had sued Tyson because of Tyson's disposal of poultry waste in the Illinois River Watershed (IRW). The IRW, in which both the State and the Nation claim interests, covers approximately one million acres straddling the Oklahoma-Arkansas border...

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