TOOELE COUNTY v. U.S.

No. 15-4062.

820 F.3d 1183 (2016)

TOOELE COUNTY; State of Utah, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee, and Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; The Wilderness Society; Sierra Club, Intervenor-Defendants. Michael Abdo; Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 3, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jess M. Krannich , Manning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar LLC, Salt Lake City, UT, ( Stephen H.M. Bloch and Joseph J. Bushyhead , Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT; Brent V. Manning and Alan C. Bradshaw , Manning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar LLC, Salt Lake City, UT, with her on the briefs) for Appellants.

Anthony L. Rampton , Assistant Attorney General, Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, ( Kathy A.F. Davis , Assistant Attorney General and Sean D. Reyes , Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, with him on the brief) for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before HARTZ, BACHARACH, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


This appeal concerns two suits in state and federal court and statutory limitations on the power of the federal court to enjoin the state-court case.

The first action to be filed was the one in federal court, where the Utah Attorney General and the Board of Tooele County Commissioners sued the federal government...

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