WildEarth Guardians: Court Dismisses Utah Suits and Upholds Presidential Authority to Establish National Monuments
August 16, 2023
August 16, 2023
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 16 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release:
A Utah federal judge on August 11 dismissed two lawsuits, led by the state of Utah, that attempted to undo President Biden's restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments and attacked the Antiquities Act as unlawful. In the ruling, District Judge David Nuffer emphasized that the Antiquities Act gives the president broad authority to designate national monuments a . . .
A Utah federal judge on August 11 dismissed two lawsuits, led by the state of Utah, that attempted to undo President Biden's restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments and attacked the Antiquities Act as unlawful. In the ruling, District Judge David Nuffer emphasized that the Antiquities Act gives the president broad authority to designate national monuments a . . .