June 23, 2026
A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived challenges to former President Joe Biden's designations of hundreds of thousands of acres as parts of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, finding that the Antiquities Act puts discernible limits on the president's discretion.
November 07, 2023
Arizona's top state lawmakers, two U.S. senators and a dozen-plus states said in amicus briefs they are all backing Utah's bid to undo President Joe Biden's designations of hundreds of thousands of acres as parts of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
October 31, 2023
Utah and some residents are asking the Tenth Circuit to revive suits challenging proclamations that redesignated large southern swaths of the Beehive State as parts of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, saying President Biden exceeded and now aims to "raze" limits of the Antiquities Act of 1906.