Legal Opinion
South Fork Band Council v. United States Department of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 3, 2009No. 09-15230PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction in an environmental challenge to a major gold mining project on the side of Mt. Tenabo in Nevada. The mountain has religious significance for Indian tribes.
The plaintiffs-appellants are the South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone of Nevada, and other tribes and organizations (“the Tribes”). The Tribes originally filed this action against the United States Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) after BLM issued its final environmental impact statement approving the project. The project’s developer,…
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