WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJ. v. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR

No. 10-35836.

677 F.3d 922 (2012)

WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Defendant-Appellant, and Glenns Ferry Grazing Association, Inc.; Juniper Mountain Grazing Association, L.L.C., Intervenor-Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 25, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence J. Lucas , Boise, ID, for plaintiff-appellee Western Watersheds Project.

Syrena C. Hargrove , AUSA, Boise, ID, for defendant-appellant United States Department of the Interior.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges, and RALPH R. BEISTLINE, Chief District Judge.


OPINION

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

The Government appeals from an award of attorneys' fees to a plaintiff conservation group in a long-running dispute involving federal grazing permits in Idaho. Plaintiff-Appellee conservation group is Western Watersheds Project ("WWP") and the permits were issued by Defendant-Appellant U.S. Department of the Interior. The issue is whether the district court properly awarded fees to WWP for legal work done in the administrative...

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