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Save the Peaks Coalition v. United States Forest Service
Opinion
Opinion
FILED
FOR PUBLICATION AUG 28 2012
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
THE SAVE THE PEAKS COALITION; No. 10-17896
KRISTIN HUISINGA; CLAYSON
BENALLY; SYLVAN GREY; DON D.C. No. 3:09-cv-08163-MHM FANNING; JENEDA BENALLY; District of Arizona, FREDERICA HALL; BERTA Phoenix
BENALLY; RACHEL TSO; LISA TSO,
Plaintiffs - Appellants, ORDER
v.
UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE;
JOSEPH P. STRINGER, Acting Forest Supervisor for the Coconino National Forest,
Defendants - Appellees,
ARIZONA SNOWBOWL RESORT LP,
Intervenor-Defendant - Appellee.
Before: WALLACE, NOONAN, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Our order filed on June 21, 2012 (ECF No. 77) is hereby amended. All
portions of the order, except the portion denying Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee
Arizona Snowbowl Resort Limited Partnership's (Snowbowl) motion for attorney's fees, are withdrawn, Snowbowl's motion for costs is denied, and our
referral of the order to the Appellate Commissioner is withdrawn.
In light of these…
Lead Opinion
Wallace, J.
Order; Dissent by
ORDER
Our order filed on June 21, 2012 (ECF No. 77) is hereby amended. All portions of the order, except the portion denying Intervenor-Defendanb-Appellee Arizona Snowbowl Resort Limited Partnership’s (Snowbowl) motion for attorney’s fees, are withdrawn, Snowbowl’s motion for costs is denied, and our referral of the order to the Appellate Commissioner is withdrawn.
In light of these amendments, Attorney Plaintiffs’/Appellants Save the Peaks Coalitions’ July 5, 2012 Petition for Rehearing En Banc is denied, as moot.
Dissenting Opinion
Wallace, J.
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. I would impose sanctions on Shanker for “grossly abuspng] the judicial process by strategically holding back claims that could have, and should have, been asserted in the first lawsuit (and would have been decided earlier but for counsel’s procedural errors in raising those claims).” Save the Peaks Coal. v. U.S. Forest Serv., 669 F.3d 1025, 1028 (9th Cir.2012).