Mealey's (November 19, 2020, 1:50 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt on Nov. 16 filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that the court should reverse a lower court’s decision to vacate federal hydraulic fracturing leases because the sale of the leases complied with federal law and the cancellation of them was “unnecessarily drastic” (Montana Wildlife Federation v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 20-35609, 9th Cir.)....