9th Circuit sides with BLM in Nevada grazing case

RENO — A federal appeals court is siding with the U.S. government in a decades-old legal battle over livestock grazing rights in Nevada. In addition to overturning an earlier ruling in favor of Nevada ranchers, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals strongly admonished a district judge in Reno for abusing his power and exhibiting personal bias against U.S. land managers. In a pair of opinions issued Friday, the appellate court in San Francisco ruled the late Wayne Hage and his family were guilty