United States Ninth Circuit

Affirming the district court's rejection of challenges by a native tribe and three environmental groups to a plan to operate a uranium mine within the withdrawal area of public lands around the Grand Canyon National Park that the Secretary of the Interior withdrew from new mining claims because the company had valid existing rights established prior to the withdrawal decision.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/12/12

Judges

• BLOCK

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel