Opinion
Civil Case No. 07-803 (RJL).
October 12, 2010
MEMORANDUM ORDER (October 7, 2010)
For the reasons set forth by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the July 16, 2010 Opinion, Jicarilla Apache Nation v. Dep't of the Interior, 613 F.3d 1112 (D.C. Cir. 2010), it is hereby
ORDERED that the Department of the Interior's decision in Vastar Resources, Inc., et al., MMS-98-0131-IND (Mar. 28, 2007) (A.R. Supp. 1-12) (" Vastar") be vacated as it applied to the period from January 1984 to February 1988; and it is further
ORDERED that the above-captioned action be reversed as it applied to the period from January 1984 to February 1988; and it is further ORDERED that the above-captioned action be remanded to the Department of the Interior for proceedings in according with the judgment of this Court.