Mealey's (May 28, 2020, 3:03 PM EDT) -- GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A federal judge in Montana on May 22 vacated federal leases sold for the purpose of hydraulic fracturing, ruling that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated federal law when it approved them and holding that the BLM cannot receive deference for its interpretation of a 2015 plan that was developed to protect the habitat of the greater sage-grouse (Montana Wildlife Federation v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 18-69, D. Mont.)....