Northern Arizona Withdrawal Brief in Opposition to Certiorari in Supreme Court

The mining industry wants the Supreme Court to take another look at a December 2017 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the Northern Arizona Mineral Withdrawal, which temporarily bans new mining claims on about one million acres of public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon. Here is our brief opposing industry’s petitions for a writ of certiorari ›

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