High Country Citizens Alliance v. Clarke

KELLY, Circuit Judge.

High Country Citizens’ Alliance, Town of Crested Butte, Colorado and the Board of Commissioners of the County of Gunni-son, Colorado (collectively, Plaintiffs) appeal from the district court’s dismissal, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, of two claims of their three-claim complaint. Plaintiffs’ complaint arises out the issuance of a mining patent and names two groups of defendants — federal defendants including the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Kathleen Clark in her official capacity as BLM Director, Ron Wenker in his official capacity of the Colorado Bureau of…