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NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. BURFORD

No. 87-4375.

871 F.2d 849 (1989)

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION; Montana Wildlife Federation; Northern Plains Resource Council, a Montana Non-Profit Corporation; Powder River Basin Resource Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert F. BURFORD, Director, Bureau of Land Management; James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, State of Wyoming; Meadowlark Farms, Inc., Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees, and Shell Oil Company; Western Energy Co., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn P. Sugameli (argued), National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., James A. Patten, Patten Law Firm, Billings, Mont., Eldon V.C. Greenberg, Galloway & Greenberg, of counsel, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Steven P. Quarles, Thomas R. Lundquist, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for defendant-intervenor-appellee State of Wyo.

Roger J. Marzulla, Asst. Atty. Gen., Byron H. Dunbar, U.S. Atty., Butte, Mont., Robert L. Klarquist, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the federal defendants-appellees.

Urban L. Roth, James A. Poore III, Gary L. Walton, Butte, Mont., for defendant-intervenor Western Energy Co.

Christopher Lane, Harold G. Morris, Jr., Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colo., David J. Ham, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendant-intervenor-appellee Meadowlark Farms, Inc.

E. Edward Bruce, Eugene D. Gulland, Richard H. Seamon, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., R.H. Bellingham, Moulton, Bellingham, Longo & Mather, Billings, Mont., of counsel, for defendant-intervenor Shell Oil Co.

Before HUG, NORRIS and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

HUG, Circuit Judge:

The National Wildlife Federation ("NWF"), Montana Wildlife Federation, Northern Plains Resource Council, and the Powder River Basin Resource Council appeal the district court's entry of summary judgment on count 1 of their amended complaint. Count 1 alleged that the Secretary of the Interior violated 30 U.S.C. § 201(a)(1) (1982) by accepting coal lease bids that fell below fair market value ("FMV").1 The district...

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