Laura Leigh v. Ken Salazar

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LAURA LEIGH, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 11-16088 KEN SALAZAR, Secretary, U.S. D.C. No. Department of the Interior; BOB  3:10-cv-00597- ABBEY, Director, Bureau of Land LRH-VPC Management; RONALD WENKER,

OPINION

Nevada State Director of Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Larry R. Hicks, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 9, 2012—San Francisco, California

Filed February 14, 2012

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, John T. Noonan, Jr., and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Wallace

1767 1770 LEIGH v. SALAZAR

COUNSEL

Gordon M. Cowan (argued), Reno, Nevada, and Bruce A. Wagman, Schiff Hardin LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Nicholas A. DiMascio (argued), Ignacia S. Moreno, and David S. Shilton, United States Department of Justice, Envi- ronment and Natural Resources Division,…