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California Miner Appeals Denial of Attorneys' Fees
Posted on 30 Jan 2013 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley DENVER - A California miner who won the right to engage in placer mining on his claim in the mountains of northern California after a February 2007 ruling by the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) on Jan. 24 appealed the... Read More

Tags: Mountain States Legal Foundation , Interior Board of Land Appeals , Equal Access to Justice Act , California , William Perry Pendley , Hound Dog placer mine , Plumas National Forest Service , Donald Eno , oil , IBLA , energy law , mining , Steven J. Lechner , Ninth Circuit , U.S. Forest Service , gas , eaja

Cadwalader Clients & Friends Memo: Montana Consumer Counsel v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Posted on 18 Nov 2011 by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

On October 13, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the market-based rate policy embodied in FERC Order No. 697 and FERC Order No. 697-A does not exceed FERC's authority as conferred by the FPA. Under Order 697, which became... Read More

Tags: FPA , Ninth Circuit , FERC , Cadwalader , Montana Consumer Counsel v. FERC , energy

Western Group: U.S. Supreme Court Must Hear Mining Case
Posted on 11 Oct 2012 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley DENVER - A 117-year-old nonprofit, non-partisan mining trade association with thousands of members on Oct. 5 urged the Supreme Court of the United States to hear a ruling by a badly fractured en banc panel of the U.S. Court... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Mountain States Legal Foundation , Klamath National Forest , Endangered Species Act , California , Karuk Tribe , William Perry Pendley , ESA , Northwest Mining Association , The New 49'ers , Oil and gas , Raymond M. Koons , mining , Ninth Circuit , U.S. Forest Service , NWMA , energy