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Alaska Miners Battle Illegal Seizure Of Valuable Claims
Posted on 9 Apr 2010 by William Perry Pendley

William Perry Pendley , President and Chief Operating Officer of Mountain States Legal Foundation DENVER, CO. - A husband and wife who own mining claims in Alaska that were illegally declared null and void by a federal agency have filed an administrative... Read More

Tags: Bureau of Land Management , Interior Board of Land Appeals , small miner waiver , mining

Court Rebuffs Miners: Withdrawal Law Constitutional
Posted on 25 Mar 2013 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley DENVER - An Arizona federal district court on March 20 rejected arguments by a 117-year-old nonprofit, non-partisan mining trade association with thousands of members that had argued that a federal law, which was used to lock... Read More

Tags: Grand Canyon , Mountain States Legal Foundation , General Mineral Law , Arizona , William Perry Pendley , Interior Secretary Salazar , Northwest Mining Association , uranium , oil , energy law , mining , NWMA , gas , "Arizona Strip , " U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management

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

Free Download: Miners Sue Salazar, Alleging Illegal Million-Acre Land Lockup
Posted on 8 Mar 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 March 6 filed a lawsuit in Arizona federal district court against the Obama Administration for its lock-up of a million acres... Read More

Tags: Mountain States Legal Foundation , General Mineral Law , Bureau of Land Management , Arizona , Ken Salazar , William Perry Pendley , U.S. Department of the Interior , Obama administration , Northwest Mining Association , uranium , mining , U.S. Forest Service , NWMA , National Environmental Policy Act , Federal Land Policy and Management Act , National Forest Management Act , energy

Alaska Miners Seek Court Ordered Return Of Valuable Claims
Posted on 25 May 2012 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley DENVER - Three Alaska miners who sued U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar among others in Alaska federal district court after their claims were declared null and void by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on May 21... Read More

Tags: miners , U.S. Secretary of the Interior , Mountain States Legal Foundation , Bureau of Land Management , Interior Board of Land Appeals , Ken Salazar , William Perry Pendley , Alaska , Mullikin v. Salazar , Mullikin , IBLA , mining , BLM , energy

LexisNexis Launches New South African Mine Health and Safety Law Publication in Partnership with Top Legal Expert
Posted on 14 Feb 2012 by LexisNexis Emerging Issues Law Community Staff

Publication offers legal practitioners comprehensive overview of South African mine health and safety law "The purpose of this handbook is to provide mining industry professionals with an easily accessible version of the Mine Health and Safety... Read More

Tags: Mine Health and Safety Law , Willem le Roux , LexisNexis , mining , Mine Health and Safety Act 29 of 1996 , South African mining , 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

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC: West Virginia Supreme Court Clarifies Meaning of 'Surface' Deeds
Posted on 15 Jun 2013 by LexisNexis Communities Staff

By Ryan J. Morgan Yesterday the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, in Faith United Methodist Church v. Morgan , No. 12-0080, 2013 W. Va. LEXIS 691 (June 13, 2013) [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ] issued an important opinion... Read More

Tags: Faith United Methodist Church v. Morgan , West Virginia , surface deeds , Williams v. South Penn Oil Co. , oil , Steptoe & Johnson , energy law , mining , gas , Ramage v. South Penn Oil Co. , West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals