USA v. THE WILDERNESS SOCIE
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in USA v. THE WILDERNESS SOCIE, No. 06-15596, an appeal in a civil action against the United States. The panel consisted of Mary M. Schroeder, Dorothy W. Nelson and Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judges.
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
This is a dispute over the status of a road on U.S. Forest Service land in Elko County, Nevada. The case was before us for the first time in 2002. See United States v. Carpenter, 298 F.3d 1122 (9th Cir. 2002). At that time, the intervenorappellant environmental groups wanted to object to the terms of a proposed settlement between the United States and Elko County that effectively allowed the County to repair the road. We ordered the district court to grant the motion to intervene. Id. at 1125. . . .