Publication Date: 2013-07-31
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Date Filed: 2013-07-31
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Sam E. Haddon, District Judge, Presiding Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Bishop (argued), Western Environmental Law Center, Helena, Montana, for Plaintiff-Appellant Montana Wilderness Association.
James S. Angell and Melanie R. Kay (argued), Earthjustice, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiffs-Appellants The Wilderness Society, Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument, National Trust for Historic Preservation and Oil and Gas Accountability Project.
for defendant: Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Tyler Welti, Rachel K. Bowen, David C. Shilton, and Robert P. Stockman (argued), United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.; Karan Dunnigan and Sarah Shattuck, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, for Defendants-Appellees Jamie Connell, in her official capacity as Director of BLM's Montana State Office; Mike Pool, in his official capacity as Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management; Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior, a federal department; Zane Fulbright, in his official capacity as Acting Manager of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Paul A. Turcke (argued), Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke, Chtd., Boise, Idaho, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees Recreational Aviation Foundation and Montana Pilots Association.
Steven J. Lechner (argued) and Jeffrey Wilson McCoy, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, Colorado; Hertha L. Lund, Lund Law, PLLC, Bozeman, Montana, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees Missouri River Stewards, Fergus County, Phillips County, Chouteau County and Blaine County.
Case Number: No. 11-35818 No. 11-35821
Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8174 MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION, a nonprofit organization, Plaintiff-Appellant, andp c