Biden Administration, Tribes: Court Should Deny Objections To Intervention Ruling

Mealey's (June 6, 2023, 2:11 PM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — The Biden administration and Native American tribes on June 5 filed a brief in Utah federal court contending that it should deny objections by groups that were denied the right to intervene in a lawsuit pertaining to the administration’s decision to reinstate the dimensions of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments because the potential intervenors “inaccurately claim” that in issuing the ruling the judge adopted a “novel” approach to intervention....