United States Tenth Circuit

In a suit to halt a wilderness inventory, plaintiff's appeal of the district court's order approving a settlement is dismissed as interlocutory since defendants' cross-claims are still pending before the district court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/09/2005
• Published 02/09/2005

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, MURPHY, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Laurens H. Silver, Mill Valley, CA, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, Bruce Babbitt, Michael Dombeck, Patrick Shea, Jim Baca, Ed Hastey, Jim Ruch, Mathew Millenbach, and Martha Hahn, Bob Buffington in support of Appellants., David A. Churchill, Jenner & Block, LLP;  Kathy C. Weinberg, Dallas, TX;  Amanda S. Amert, Chicago, IL, filed a brief for Amicus Curiae, Professors Gregory Alan Hicks and Robert B. Keiter., Brian B. O'Neill, Richard A. Duncan, Jonathan W. Dettmann, and Craig S. Coleman, Faegre and Benson, LLP, Minneapolis, MN, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, Professors of National Resources Law in support of Appellants., Michael Saul and Thomas D. Lustig, National Wildlife Federation, Boulder, CO, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, National Wildlife Federation, New Mexico Wildlife Federation, Idaho Wildlife Federation, Wyoming Wildlife Federation, Far Out Expeditions, and Bruce Hucko, in support of Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• James S. Angell, Earthjustice (Edward B. Zukoski and Eric Biber, Earthjustice, Denver, CO;  Stephen H.M. Bloch and Heidi J. McIntosh, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants., Constance E. Brooks, C.E. Brooks & Associates, PC (Michael B. Marinovich, C.E. Brooks & Associates, PC, Denver CO;  Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, J. Mark Ward, Assistant Attorney General, and John W. Andrews, Special Assistant Attorney General, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Todd S. Aagaard, Attorney, (Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, and Paul B. Smyth, of Counsel, U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, D.C. with him on the brief) Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees., Andrew Bremner, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, Denver, CO, filed a brief for Amicus Curiae, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees., Paul A. Turcke, Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke, Chartered, Boise, ID, filed a brief for Amici Curiae, BlueRibbon Coalition and Utah Shared Access Alliance, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.