COUNTY OF AMADOR v. U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR

No. 15-17253.

872 F.3d 1012 (2017)

COUNTY OF AMADOR, California, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; Ryan K. Zinke, Secretary of the United States Department of Interior; Kevin K. Washburn, Acting Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, United States Department of Interior, Defendants-Appellees, Ione Band of Miwok Indians, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher E. Skinnell (argued) and James R. Parrinello , Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP, San Rafael, California; Cathy A. Christian , Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP, Sacramento, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John L. Smeltzer (argued), Katherine J. Barton , and Judith Rabinowitz , Attorneys; John C. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Matthew Kelly , Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

Jerome L. Levine (argued) and Timothy Q. Evans , Holland & Knight LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

Before: Susan P. Graber and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges, and Jeremy D. Fogel, District Judge.


OPINION

This case involves a dispute over a proposed casino in Amador County, California. Plaintiff, the County of Amador ("County"), challenges a 2012 record of decision ("ROD") issued by the United States Department of the Interior ("Interior") in which the agency announced...

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