OHLSEN v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 19-2124 19-2129 19-2130 19-2163.

998 F.3d 1143 (2021)

Gerald OHLSEN; Janet Youngberg; James Farrington; Thomas (Tony) Derochie; Caryn Derochie; William McClellan; Donna McClellan; Nancy Higgins; Vernon Cobb; Binda Cobb; Christine Wood; Mark Thompson; Donald Giles; Bonnie Long; Thomas Bragg; Diane Bragg; Ernest Vigil; Frieda Vigil; Brad Wosick; Johnny Luna; Deanne Luna; Marlene Barber; Michael McDaniel; Paula Wiltgen; Martin Valencia; Vested Interest, LLC; Janice Farrington; Ken Kugler; Debbie Kugler; David Lee; Diane Lee; Joseph Lee; Alica Lee; Ed Mortensen; Katherine Mortensen; David Coulter; Matt Urban; Marie Urban; Olympia Salas; Mary Ann Solis; Rena Shepherd; Brett Myrick; Karen Herrera; Michael Medwin; Michael Chavez; Michelle Chavez; Ronald Douglass; Manuel Urban, Jr.; Anthony Farrington, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Catherine C. De Baca; David Lloyd Sais; Lucille Sais; Tomas Apodaca; Christine Apodaca; Jeff Sorroche, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and State Farm Fire & Casualty Company; Safeco Insurance Company of America; Allstate Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Ernest R. Greene, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America; Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED June 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Tosdal of Tosdal Law Firm, Solana Beach, California ( Jane B. Yohalem of Law Office of Jane B. Yohalem, Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joshua Y. Dos Santos , Assistant United States Attorney ( Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; John C. Anderson , United States Attorney; Roberto D. Ortega , Assistant United States Attorney; Ruth F. Keegan , Assistant United States Attorney; Cassandra C. Currie , Assistant United States Attorney; Christopher F. Jeu , Assistant United States Attorney; Mark B. Stern , Attorney, Appellate Staff Civil Division; Joshua Revesz , Attorney, Appellate Staff Civil Division, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, LUCERO, Senior Circuit Judge, and CARSON, Circuit Judge.


In the summer of 2016, a large fire, later known as the Dog Head Fire, engulfed Isleta Pueblo and United States Forest Service land in the Manzano Mountains of New Mexico. By the time it was extinguished, the fire had burned several thousand acres of land. The fire resulted from forest-thinning work performed by Pueblo crewmembers...

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