Land grab or land rights? Utah eyes millions of acres of public terrain.
At stake is control of public lands in Western states, and conservationists fear increased efforts to roll back protections ...
Supreme Court decision leaves Utah’s land control ambitions in limbo
Utah filed its lawsuit against the United States government last August. The state argued that it is deprived of more than ...
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Supreme Court rejects Utah’s push to wrest control of public land from the federal government
The Supreme Court is turning back a push by the state of Utah to wrest control of vast areas of public land from the federal ...
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Utah’s public lands challenge
The state in August filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare the federal Bureau of Land Management’s ownership of 18.5 ...
Utah, Idaho sought to turn federal land over to states. What did Supreme Court say?
According to a brief Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, 9 million acres of Idaho land ...
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Lee bill would block BLM Utah travel management plans
A coalition of Utah Republicans has filed legislation invoking a 19th century mining law to block the Bureau of Land ...
US Supreme Court rejects Utah challenge to federal land control
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit by Utah that argued the federal government was unconstitutionally holding ...
Utah lawmaker wants presidential monument creation nixed
In 1996, President Bill Clinton created the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument with pen and paper at a table in neighboring ...
U.S. Supreme Court will not hear Utah’s lawsuit to control 18.5 million acres of public land
This breaking story has been updated. The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will not hear Utah’s sweeping public lands ...
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Land grab or land rights? Utah eyes millions of acres of public terrain.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who chairs the Senate’s energy and natural resources committee and has long argued for state management of BLM lands, posted on social media last month after a meeting ...
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Utah’s Public-Lands Lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Utah's lawsuit that sought to make federal lands within its state borders illegal.
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Editorial: Utah’s twisted lawsuit is corrupting the West’s (and Colorado’s) commitment to public lands
is a direct response to his conflicts with the BLM. The Utah lawsuit asks the U.S. Supreme Court to strip the federal government of all lands that are not already appropriated as national parks ...