Legal Opinion
Western Energy Alliance v. Salazar
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 12, 2013No. 11-8071PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.
This litigation concerns whether the Mineral Leasing Act (“the Act” or “MLA”), as amended by the Reform Act of 1987, requires the Secretary of the Interi- or (“the Secretary”) to issue leases for parcels of land to the highest bidding energy company within sixty days of payment to the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”). Appellants (collectively “Energy Companies”) brought suit seeking to compel the Secretary to issue 118 pending leases on which they were the high bidders and more than sixty days had passed since they had paid BLM in full. The district court construed 30…
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