Battle Resumes to Reverse Ruling Upholding Utah Grand Staircase

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DENVER (AP) -- One of the noisiest public-land battles in the West came back to life Thursday as opponents of the 1.7 million- acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah tried to convince a federal appeals court that the creation of the preserve was illegal.

The Denver-based Mountain States Legal Foundation asked the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling last year that dismissed a lawsuit challenging the monument.

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Battle Resumes to Reverse Ruling Upholding Utah Grand Staircase

Attorneys for the Department of Justice and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance argued before a three-judge panel that former President Clinton was within his ri...

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