Kosanke v. Department of the Interior
ELR Citation: ELR 21428 No(s). 97-5145 (D.C. Cir. Jun 5, 1998)
The court holds that a 1994 notation in the public land records segregated certain federal lands in southern California from the operation of mining laws and rendered mining claims void ab initio. The court first holds that the notation recording a June 1994 segregation in the relevant U.S. Bureau o...