Legal Opinion
Orion Reserves Ltd. Partnership v. Salazar
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 23, 2009No. 07-5281, 07-5290PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GRIFFITH.
GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves a challenge by Orion Reserves Limited Partnership (Orion) to a decision of the Department of the Interior (Interior) invalidating 156 oil shale mining claims on federal land. The district court concluded that Interior’s decision was arbitrary and capricious. We reach the opposite conclusion, which is compelled by the Supreme Court’s holding in Hickel v. Oil Shale Corp., 400 U.S. 48, 91 S.Ct. 196, 27 L.Ed.2d 193 (1970), that when a party substantially fails to perform the assessment work required…
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