Legal Opinion
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. Palma
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 8, 2013No. 11-4094PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.
Several environmental groups 1 (collectively referred to as “SUWA”) challenge decisions made by the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) and the Interior Board of Land Appeals (“IBLA”). At issue is the legality of thirty-nine oil and gas leases in Southern Utah, owned by Kirk- wood Oil and Gas, LLC and William C. Kirkwood (collectively “Kirkwood”). In the 1980s, Kirkwood applied to have its oil and gas leases converted to combined hydrocarbon leases, which would allow Kirk-wood to extract oil from tar sands. To date, BLM has never accepted or rejected Kirkwood’s…
2Cases cited39 opinions
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- Abbott Laboratories v. GardnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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