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Judge dismisses case aimed at stopping Utah from reviving its public land lawsuit
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit from environmentalists that argued Utah’s now-failed petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to gain control of millions of acres of federal land was unconstitutional, which would have prevented the state from bringing a similar case forward in the future. On Wednesday, 3rd District Court Judge Thaddeus May dismissed the lawsuit from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, siding with the state in a case that stems from Utah’s 2024 petition to wrest control of 18.5 million acres of Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, land. But since the U.S. Supreme Court ...
