The Department of Justice's Defamation of Yellowstone Public Defenders

Dr. Kout believes that there's nothing stopping the US from just designating the 10th circuit as the proper venue for all of these cases. The Department of Justice raised another more salient point as summarized in his paper: splitting Yellowstone into the district courts for Wyoming, Idaho and Montana would also split it between the ninth and 10th circuits. Senator Enzi and others were wary of this because it would create a new and unwelcome burden if environmentalists could use this foothold to challenge park services management decisions.