Great Basin Mine Watch v. Hankins

456 F.3d 955 GREAT BASIN MINE WATCH, and Mineral Policy Center, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Helen HANKINS, United States Department of the Interior, and Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees, Newmont USA Limited, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee. No. 04-16125. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted February 14, 2006. Filed August 1, 2006. Roger Flynn, Jeffrey C. Parsons, Western Mining Action Project, Boulder, CO; Nicole U. Rinke, Western Mining Action Project, Reno, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Thomas L. Sansonetti, Andrew Mergen, John E. Arbab, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees. Scott W. Hardt, Temkin Wielga & Hardt LLP, Denver, CO, for the intervenor-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada; Howard D. McKibben, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-02-00605-HDM/RAM. Before J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges. WALLACE, Circuit Judge. 1 Great Basin Mine Watch and the Mineral Policy Center (collectively, Great Basin) appeal from the district court's summary judgment on their claims against the United States Department of…