Preservation of Los Olivos v. United States Department of the Interior

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

A. HOWARD MATZ, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs Preservation of Los Olivos (“POLO”) and Preservation of Santa Ynez (“POSY”) are two citizen groups from the Santa Ynez Valley region of California. They filed this action seeking review of two orders of defendant Department of the Interior, Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA): one dated February 3, 2006 and one dated June 29, 2007 (collectively, “the IBIA Order”). In those orders the IBIA held that Plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the decision of…