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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA NEVADA GOLD MINES, LLC, A No. 82561 DELAWARE LIMITED LIABLITY COMPANY; LANDER COUNTY, A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF NEVADA; PERSHING COUNTY, A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF NEVADA; WHITE PINE COUNTY, A POLITICAL

142 Nev., Advance Opinion 10 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA GOLD STANDARD VENTURES (US) No. 88139 INC., A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF ORLA MINING LTD., Appellant, vs. FILED CHRIS THORSON, P.E., NE

*960WALLACE, Circuit Judge. Great Basin Mine Watch and the Mineral Policy Center (collectively, Great Basin) appeal from the district court’s summary-judgment on their claims against the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (collectively, Bureau). Great Basin alleged that the Bureau’s approval of two gold mining permits to the Newmo

456 F.3d 955 GREAT BASIN MINE WATCH, and Mineral Policy Center, Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.Helen HANKINS, United States Department of the Interior, and Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees,Newmont USA Limited, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee. No. 04-16125. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted February 14, 2006.

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER HAGEN, District Judge. This court previously granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment based on a funding that as a licensed contractor within the meaning of N.R.S. 616.262(3), defendant was plaintiffs statutory employer and protected from personal injury liability by the exclusive remedy provision of the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act. On appeal, the Nin

608 F.3d 592 (2010) TE-MOAK TRIBE OF WESTERN SHOSHONE OF NEVADA; Western Shoshone Defense Project; Great Basin Mine Watch, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; Robert V. Abbey State Director; Gail G. Givens, Assistant Field Manager Battle Mountain *593 Field Office; Clinton R. Oke, Assistant Field Manager; United States Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees, Cortez

874 P.2d 742 (1994) IDAHO RESOURCES, INC., An Idaho Corporation, a/k/a Nevada-Idaho Resources, Inc.; Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, a California Corporation, Appellants/Cross-Respondents, v. FREEPORT-McMORAN GOLD COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, as Agent for the Freeport-FMC Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture, a Joint Venture Between Freeport-McMoran Gold Company and FMC Jerritt Canyon Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Respondent/Cross-Appellant.

The point raised by respondents that appellant is not concerned with the invalidity of the statutes is not involved here. Both parties are agreed that the sole issue is that of the validity of the 1933 act. The statement of the case, stipulated to by both parties and settled, allowed and approved by the trial court shows definitely that plaintiff claimed title to the property through long years of ownership and possession; that defendants claimed under deeds from the county under the act of 1

893 P.2d 388 (1995) Adolf SCHOEPE, Appellant, v. PACIFIC SILVER CORPORATION, n/k/a Alta Gold Company, and the Estate of Ruth T. Williams, Respondents. No. 25308. Supreme Court of Nevada. April 27, 1995. Matthews & Wines, Elko, and Burns, Wall, Smith & Mueller and Jack M. Merritts, Denver, Colorado, for Appellant. Jenkins & Frey, Reno, for responde

905 P.2d 168 (1995) John Michael OLIVER, Appellant, v. BARRICK GOLDSTRIKE MINES, Respondent. No. 25549 Supreme Court of Nevada. November 1, 1995 *170 Easterly & Armstrong, Elko, for Appellant. Erwin, Thompson & Hascheff, Reno; Parsons, Behle & Latimer and James Woodall and Barry N. Johnson, Salt Lake City, Utah

*106OPINION Per Curiam: FACTS In 1991, Independence Mining Company (“IMC”) applied for a permit from the United States Forest Service (“USFS”) to expand its gold mining activities on public lands in the Independence Mountain range. As a part of the permit procedure, the Nevada Division of Wildlife (“NDOW”)

RADER, Circuit Judge. The Western Shoshone seek to invalidate a 1977 Indian Claims Commission (ICC) judgment awarding compensation for the taking of the Western Shoshone’s aboriginal lands in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California. The Western Shoshone also seek additional compensation and other relief under the Treaty of Ruby Valley o

586 F.Supp. 933 (1984) FEGERT, INC., a Nevada corporation, Plaintiff, v. CHASE COMMERCIAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Defendant. No. CV-R-83-419-ECR. United States District Court, D. Nevada. June 21, 1984. *934 Richard J. Matthews, Elko, Nev., for plaintiff. Lionel, Sawyer & Collins by Mark A. Solomon, Las Veg

We submit that the following authorities sustain the validity of the objection interposed by the defendant to permitting Hough to testify that the signature on plaintiff's exhibit A was the signature of Thomas J. Kearns, deceased. Lovelock Lands, Inc. v. Lovelock Land and Development Co., 52 Nev. 140, 283 P. 403; Bright v. Virginia Gold Hill Water Co., 254 Fed. 175; Palmer v. Guaranty Trust Savings Bank,

OPINION KING, District Judge: Independence Mining Company, Inc. (“IMC”) appeals the district court’s denial of its motion seeking a writ of mandamus or an order compelling the Secretary of the Interi- or to determine the validity of its mineral patent claims and, if appropriate, issue patents for the claims. IMC contends the district court erred in refusing to direct such actions because IMC had shown the Se

Pleadings in civil cases are not mere matters of form, but are the foundation of the action and basis of jurisdiction, and intended and required to inform the adverse or interested parties of the real cause of action and to frame and present the issues to be decided by the court. The caption of plaintiff's complaint contains the names of certain parties as defendants, but does not name or purport to name the interveners as parties to the action. And the interveners are nowhere mentioned in pl

*576OPINION Per Curiam: Ellison Ranching Company, the respondent, brought this action to determine what interest, if any, the State of Nevada had in the gas, coal, oil, and other mineral rights of properties acquired in a state patent by Ellison’s predecessors in interest. NRS 321.332, subsection l.1 The distric

OPINION GOULD, Circuit Judge: This case arises out of the long and contentious process to repair a flood-dam *841 aged road in a sensitive area of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Elko County, Nevada. A related dispute reached us twice before, when we ordered that App

105 F.3d 502 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 516, 97 Daily JournalD.A.R. 829INDEPENDENCE MINING COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Bruce BABBITT, Secretary of the Interior; United StatesDepartment of the Interior; and The Bureau ofLand Management, Defendants-Appellees. No. 95-16112. United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Se

657 N.W.2d 804 (2002) 254 Mich. App. 576 Emmett CHASTAIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee. Docket No. 222502. Court of Appeals of Michigan. Submitted November 19, 2002, at Detroit. Decided December 27, 2002, at 9:20 a.m. Released for Publication March 10, 2003.