Publication Date: 2017-06-13
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: Real Estate | Mining and Resources
Date Filed: 2017-06-13
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Susan R. Bolton, District Judge, Presiding Before: Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Ronald M. Gould, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Smeltzer (argued), Katherine J. Barton, F. Patrick Barry, and Yosef Negose, Attorneys, and John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Scott Bergstrom and Andrew Engel, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee United States.
for defendant: Sean T. Hood (argued) and Rhett Billingsley, Fennemore Craig P.C., Phoenix, Arizona, for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant Freeport Minerals Corporation.
Case Number: Nos. 14-16942 14-16943, 14-16944, 14-17047, 14-17048, 14-17185
Failure to present evidence regarding potential adverse impacts of water transfers warranted denial of transfer applications (O'Scannlain, J.)