Legal Opinion
Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Donald P. Hodel, and Alaska Miners Association, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 23, 1986No. 86-3535PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This litigation arises £rom the clash of the differing interests of the National Park Service (NPS), miners and environmentalists over mining in Alaska’s national parks. We must decide whether the district court abused its discretion in entering a preliminary injunction which effectively barred mining after the 1985 season until proper environmental analyses are performed. We hold that it did not.
ISSUES(1) Did the court abuse its discretion in denying joinder of all miners who had submitted operations plans to the NPS?(2) What is the effect of NPS’s plan to…
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