The Court found that plaintiffs failed to establish a violation under the National Environmental Policy Act by the United States Forest Service for re-opening the "Canyon mine, and that the plaintiffs lacked standing to assert that the "valid existing rights determination" by the Forest Service failed to consider all relevant cost factors. The Court dismissed the case.
Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to stop the United States Forest Service from re-opening the "Canyon Mine" in Northern Arizona, alleging that the Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act and that the "valid existing rights determination" by the Forest Service failed to consider all relevant cost factors. Plaintiff's concerns about the re-opening of the mine involve environmental and historical impacts of the mine on Indigenous land surrounding the mine, as well as dust, truck traffic, light pollution and noise.