HAVASUPAI TRIBE v. PROVENCIO

No. 15-15857 15-15754.

876 F.3d 1242 (2017)

HAVASUPAI TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Grand Canyon Trust; Center for Biological Diversity; Sierra Club, Plaintiffs, v. Heather PROVENCIO, Forest Supervisor, Kaibab National Forest; United States Forest Service, an agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Defendants-Appellees, Energy Fuels Resources (USA), Inc.; EFR Arizona Strip LLC, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees. Grand Canyon Trust; Center for Biological Diversity; Sierra Club, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Havasupai Tribe, Plaintiff, v. Heather Provencio, Forest Supervisor, Kaibab National Forest; United States Forest Service, an agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Defendants-Appellees, Energy Fuels Resources (USA), Inc.; EFR Arizona Strip LLC, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 12, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Hughes (argued) and Reed C. Bienvenu , Rothstein Donatelli Hughes Dahlstrom Schoenburg & Bienvenu LLP, Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Plaintiff-Appellant Havasupai Tribe.

Neil Levine (argued) and Aaron Paul , Grand Canyon Trust, Denver, Colorado; Marc Fink , Center for Biological Diversity, Duluth, Minnesota; Roger Flynn , Western Mining Action Project, Lyons, Colorado; for Plaintiffs-Appellants Grand Canyon Trust, Center for Biological Diversity, and Sierra Club.

Thekla Hansen-Young (argued) , Jared S. Pettinato , Michael T. Gray , and Andrew C. Mergen , Attorneys; John C. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Nicholas L. Pino and Pamela P. Henderson , Office of General Counsel, United States Department of Agriculture; for Defendants-Appellees.

David J. DePippo (argued) , Hunton & Williams LLP, Richmond, Virginia; Michael K. Kennedy and Bradley J. Glass , Gallagher & Kennedy P.A., Phoenix, Arizona; for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Marsha S. Berzon and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Frederic Block, District Judge.


OPINION

In National Mining Association v. Zinke, ___ F.3d ___ (9th Cir. 2017), decided today, we upheld the decision of the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw, for twenty years, more than one million acres of public lands around Grand Canyon National Park from new mining claims. That withdrawal did not...

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