Legal Opinion
Great Basin Mine Watch v. Hankins
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 31, 2006No. 04-16125PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*960WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
Great Basin Mine Watch and the Mineral Policy Center (collectively, Great Basin) appeal from the district court’s summary-judgment on their claims against the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (collectively, Bureau). Great Basin alleged that the Bureau’s approval of two gold mining permits to the Newmont Mining Corporation (Newmont) violated, inter alia, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4312, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 704-706. Newmont appears as an in-tervenor in this appeal.…
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