WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT v. ELLIS

No. 11-35464.

697 F.3d 1133 (2012)

WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Steve ELLIS, Director, Idaho State Office, Bureau of Land Management; Rick Vander Voet; Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd C. Tucci , Boise, ID, for plaintiff-appellant Western Watersheds Project.

Syrena C. Hargrove , Assistant United States Attorney, Boise, ID, for defendants-appellees Steve Ellis, Director of Idaho Bureau of Land Management, et al.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges, and JED S. RAKOFF, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves an attorneys' fee dispute that added a rancorous coda to long-running grazing permit litigation in Idaho that was all ably overseen by the district court. The plaintiff, Western Watersheds Project ("WWP"), originally filed this action in 2004 challenging the Bureau of Land Management's ("BLM") renewal of grazing permits in the Jarbidge Resource Area ("JRA"), covering a large expanse of Southern Idaho...

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