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PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION v. LACOUNTE

No. 17-55647.

939 F.3d 1029 (2019)

PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION; David Hogan; Nica Knite, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Darryl LACOUNTE, Acting Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs; David L. Bernhardt, Secretary, Department of the Interior; Tara Katuk Maclean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs; Amy Dutschke, Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs Pacific Region; John Rydzik, Chief, Bureau of Indian Affairs Pacific Region Division of Environmental Cultural Resources Management & Safety, Defendants-Appellees, Tule Wind, LLC; Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 23, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Eubanks II (argued), Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Fort Collins, Colorado; William N. Lawton , Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Allen M. Brabender (argued), Brian Collins , and John H. Martin , Attorneys; Eric Grant , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

Jeffrey Durocher , Portland, Oregon; for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee Tule Wind, LLC.

Bradley G. Bledsoe Downes , Bledsoe Downes PC, Chandler, Arizona, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians.

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Carol Bagley Amon, District Judge.

OPINION

Plaintiffs Protect Our Communities Foundation, David Hogan, and Nica Knite ("Plaintiffs") challenge the decision of the Bureau of Indian Affairs ("BIA") to approve an industrial-scale wind facility in Southern California. The district court granted summary judgment to Defendant BIA officials, Defendant-Intervenor...

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