Max L. Krueger v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior

CHRISTENSEN, District Judge. *

Concluding that the pause ordered by the appellee Secretary in the issuance of coal prospecting permits, although protracted as it turned out, neither required an environmental impact statement nor constituted an abuse of the discretion afforded by relevant statutes, we affirm a summary judgment granted by the district court which dismissed the complaint of a disappointed applicant for such a permit. Whether the pause ultimately proves one “that refreshes” will have to be determined in a different context 1 and in another case to the extent that further judicial…