PIT RIVER TRIBE v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

No. 17-15616.

939 F.3d 962 (2019)

PIT RIVER TRIBE; Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defense; Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center; Save Medicine Lake Coalition; Medicine Lake Citizens for Quality Environment, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT; U.S. Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 19, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Gabrielle Sprague (argued) and Ellen J. Durkee , Appellate Section; Eric Grant , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Jeffrey Bossert Clark , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Samuel Lazerwitz (argued) and Caleb G. Wright (argued), Certified Law Students; Alicia E. Thesing , Isaac C. Cheng , and Deborah Ann Sivas , Supervising Attorneys; Environmental Law Clinic, Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School, Stanford, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: William A. Fletcher and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges, and Roslyn O. Silver, District Judge.


OPINION

The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior (collectively, BLM) appeal the district court's order granting summary judgment in favor of the Pit River Tribe and several local and regional environmental organizations (collectively, Pit River). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C...

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