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Oak Flat
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Eleven judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have urged the US Supreme Court to take up the Oak Flat case, backing protection for the sacred Apache site in Arizona threatened by a copper mining project. The rare show of judicial support adds pressure on the high court to hear Apache Stronghold's challenge after lower courts refused to block the land transfer.
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A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider its decision allowing the transfer of the Oak Flat land in Arizona to a copper mining project, a site sacred to Western Apache tribes. The Center for Biological Diversity highlighted the ruling, and conservation and tribal groups are expected to keep fighting the transfer, which they say threatens sacred land and cultural resources.