United States Tenth Circuit

In an action challenging the "Roadless Rule," which prohibits construction in inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands, defendants' appeal is dismissed as moot where the Roadless Rule has been replaced by a final rule.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2005
• Published 07/12/2005

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, MURPHY, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Angell of Earthjustice, Denver, CO (Timothy J. Preso, Douglas L. Honnold, and Abigail M. Dillen of Earthjustice, Bozeman, MT, with him on the briefs), for Appellants., Robin L. Rivett and Emma T. Suárez Pawlicki of Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, filed an amicus curiae brief for Pacific Legal Foundation., Paul M. Seby and William H. Caile of Friedlob, Sanderson, Paulson & Tourtillott, Denver, CO, filed an amici curiae brief for Colorado Mining Association, Utah Mining Association, Wyoming Mining Association, and the Western Business Roundtable., Thomas R. Lundquist and J. Michael Klise of Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., with William R. Murray, of Counsel, American Forest & Paper Association, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for the American Forest & Paper Association., Kelly A. Johnson, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, James C. Kilbourne and Andrew C. Mergen, Attorneys, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for the United States of America., Patrick A. Parenteau and Julia LeMense Huff of Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT, filed an amicus curiae brief for Environmental Ethics., Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General, Clive J. Strong, Chief, Natural Resources Division, Clay R. Smith and Steven W. Strack, Deputy Attorneys General, Boise, ID, filed an amicus curiae brief for the State of Idaho., Paul A. Turcke of Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke, Chartered, Boise, ID, filed an amici curiae brief for Blueribbon Coalition, Idaho State Snowmobile Association, and American Council of Snowmobile Associations., Alison Roberts & WilliamPerry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus curiae brief for Mountain States Legal Foundation., Constance E. Brooks and Michael Marinovich of C.E. Brooks & Associates P.C., Denver, CO, filed an amici curiae brief for Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts, Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, Wyoming Stock Growers Association, Petroleum Association of Wyoming, Billings County, ND, and Rocky Mountain Region-People for the U.S.A., Michael S. Johnson, Jaysen R. Oldroyd, Assistant Attorneys General, and Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, filed an amicus brief for the State of Utah.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer A. Golden, Senior Assistant Attorney General (Patrick J. Crank, Attorney General;  and Jay A. Jerde, Deputy Attorney General, with her on the briefs), Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Cheyenne, WY, for Appellee.