Muwekma Ohlone Tribe v. Kenneth Salazar

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging that the Muwekma sought recognition by letter, but when Interior directed Muwekma to submit a Part 83 petition instead, the tribe did so
• suggesting that agency action is not arbitrary if the agency offers good reasons for treating regulated parties differently
• stating that an agency’s further explanation on remand “must be more than a barren exercise of supplying reasons to support a pre-ordained result” (citation omitted)
• explaining that “it is 18 entirely proper for an agency to provide an explanation if directed to do so on remand”
• stating that an agency’s further explanation on remand “must be more than a barren exercise of supplying reasons to support a pre-ordained result” (citation omitted)
• suggesting that agency action is not 13 arbitrary if the agency offers good reasons for treating regulated parties differently

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).