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NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. BURFORD

No. CV-82-117-BLG.

677 F.Supp. 1445 (1985)

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION, Northern Plains Resource Council, Montana Wildlife Federation, and Powder River Basin Resource Council, Plaintiffs, v. Robert BURFORD, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior; and U.S. Department of the Interior, Defendants, and State of Wyoming; Shell Oil Company; and Meadowlark Farms, Inc., Intervenors-Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Montana, Billings Division.

September 3, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Patten, Patten & Renz, Billings, Mont., Thomas M. France, Natural Resource Clinic, Missoula, Mont., Frances M. Green, National Wildlife Federation, Boulder, Colo., Norman L. Dean, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Allen McKenzie, Asst. U.S. Atty., Butte, Mont., William M. Cohen, Michael Reed, Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Eugene Gulland, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., R.H. Bellingham, Moulton Law Firm, Billings, Mont., for Shell Oil Co.

Richard M. Hall, Washington, D.C., Bruce Toole, Billings, Mont., Steven P. Quarles, Washington, D.C., for State of Wyo.

Christopher Lane, Harold G. Morris, Jr., Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colo., John Ross, Anderson Law Firm, Billings, Mont., for Meadowlark Farms, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BATTIN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Northern Plains Resource Council, Montana Wildlife Federation, and Powder River Basin Resource Council, seek judicial review of final decisions made by the Secretary of the Interior regarding the sale of coal leases in the Powder River coal region located in southeastern Montana and northern Wyoming. In their amended complaint...

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