US EditionSupreme Court Declines to Take up Landowner Appeal in Corner-Crossing Case
The Supreme Court’s refusal leaves corner-crossing legal under the 10th Circuit ruling, affecting millions of acres of checkerboard land in Western states, including Wyoming and Montana.
- On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider Fred Eshelman's appeal in a corner-crossing dispute, leaving the practice legal within the 10th Circuit states and affecting 2.44 million Wyoming acres.
- Pursuing criminal and civil trespass claims, Eshelman argues the case involves property valued at $19.9 million and risks losing up to $9 million in value, he said.
- Judges cited the Unlawful Inclosures Act as central to barring landowners from obstructing public access, with a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel upholding corner-crossing rights.
- Backcountry Hunters and Anglers' leaders said the Supreme Court order preserves appellate precedent that benefits public-land access supporters, leaving corner-crossing in a legal gray area in Montana and other Western states.
- Had the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case, a ruling would have applied across all 50 states, leaving nationwide clarity unresolved after the court declined review.
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Oil City News
Corner crossing remains legal across much of the West after Supreme Court rejects appeal
by Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Carbon County ranch owner Fred Eshelman’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that corner crossing to reach public land is legal. The decision affects access to 2.44 million acres of public land in Wyoming and more in five other states. The Supreme Court put Eshelman’s failed lawsuit, “Iron Bar Holdings, LLC v. Cape, Bradly H., Et al.,” on its list of rejected appeals…
Montana Free Press
Supreme Court declines to take up landowner appeal in corner-crossing case
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider an appeal of a corner-crossing case that’s been closely watched by public land hunters and landowner groups throughout the West. The court’s decision, codified in an “order list” released on Monday, means corner-crossing remains legal in the 10th Circuit states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico. Elsewhere in the West, including Montana, which has more than 900,000 acres of…
BHA Celebrates SCOTUS Corner Crossing Decision
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers reacts to a US Supreme Court decision to leave in place a lower court's ruling upholding the legality of "corner crossing," which BHA termed "a resounding victory for all who value their right to access public lands." The post BHA Celebrates SCOTUS Corner Crossing Decision appeared first on .
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