Downstate Stone Company, an Illinois Corporation v. United States of America

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

This ease presents the question of the propriety of a preliminary injunction that enjoins the United States from enforcing, during the pendency of a quiet title action, several criminal statutes intended to protect our national forests and to insure compliance with the applicable rules and regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which oversees the national forests. This dispute arises from a quiet title action brought by Downstate Stone Company (“Downstate”) against the United States, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2409a, to resolve the…