JoseCuervo
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In the never-ending saga of "Snowmobiles or Not!", the Bush Administration and the Blue Ribbers took another loss.....
And it loooks like the 2005 season may be the same...Legal jockeying on the future of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park began Tuesday in a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan rejected a request by the Bush administration and snowmobile industry lawyers to transfer a case on snowmobile use in Yellowstone to a federal court in Wyoming.
“I have not heard any new reasons to believe it is appropriate to transfer this case,” Sullivan told the courtroom filled with lawyers, government officials and environmentalists.
Sullivan set another hearing for April 14 and vowed that the Interior Department official’s rejection of his order would be addressed at some point.
Although environmentalists and snowmobile industry lawyers called for the issue to be settled, they staked out ground that leaves little room for compromise and are likely to continue the legal battle if their positions are rejected.