Whiny militia ranchers in Nevada are certain to have a tantrum over this court ruling.

[Snarkoleptic]

http://www.trialinsider.com/?p=6095

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday overturned a Nevada judge’s decision that rancher Wayne Hage, and his father before him, had no right to bolster a water rights claim on federal land into the right to graze cattle on that federal land.

The decision reinstates government’s claims that Hage and his father “openly trespassed” on federal land between 2004 and 2008 in remote Monitor Valley, 200 miles north of Las Vegas. After Hage senior died in 2006 his estate was replaced as a defendant. The appeals court ordered the case back to Nevada with instructions to hold Hage liable for trespass on federal land for the grazing of his cattle and calculate the appropriate damages and bar him from repeating the practice.

In a rare move, the appeals court found U.S. District Judge Robert Jones of Reno so biased against the out-of-state lawyers representing the government that the panel ordered the case taken away from him and given to a new judge.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Love that last sentence......