United States Ninth Circuit

Sand and gravel are "valuable minerals" within the meaning of the Pittman Underground Water Act, giving the U.S. title to those minerals on a parcel of land.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2002
• Decided 12/30/2002
• Published 12/30/2002

Judges

• Before HAWKINS, GRABER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• L. Eric Lundgren, Lundgren Law Offices, P.C., Cheyenne, WY, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Blaine T. Welsh, Assistant United States Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees.