United States Tenth Circuit

An appeal from summary judgment for defendants in an action challenging the legality of the creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah is dismissed where plaintiff, a non-profit, lacked standing for its claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2006
• Published 07/25/2006

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jayme Ritchie (William Perry Pendley and S. Amanda Koehler, with her on the briefs), Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant., J. Mark Ward, Assistant Attorney General and Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General, filed a brief for amicus curiae State of Utah on behalf of appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Todd S. Kim, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney and Carlie Christensen, Assistant United States Attorney, District of Utah, Michael A. Gheleta and Ellen Durkee, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees., Stephen H.M. Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT (Heidi J. McIntosh, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT, Richard A. Duncan, Craig S. Coleman and Sarah I. Wheelock, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, MN, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.