Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Western Lands Project
Amici Curiae
Irving L. Gornstein, Counsel of Record Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is a national alliance of local, State, and Federal resource professionals. The Western Lands Project monitors Federal land exchanges and sales while promoting reform in related Federal policies. Irving Gornstein is counsel with the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, where he specializes in appellate litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 3, 2009. This case became moot when [Veterans of Foreign Wars] Post 385E disbanded, an event that transpired while the case was pending…