Mountain States Legal Foundation was recently featured in Behind the Black by Robert Zimmerman. His article featured MSLF’s recent victory in the Solenex case on behalf of Sydney Longwell (1939-2020) and his family.
Bring a gun to a knife fight: In 1982 Sidney Longwell bought a federal oil and gas lease from the Interior Department, with the intention of making money from the oil he extracted from Montana’s Lewis and Clark National Forest. Such leases were not unusual up until then, and in this case was obtained in a perfectly legal manner.
It was not to be, at least for the next four decades, as the Interior Department under five different Presidents repeatedly changed the rules and made arbitrary decisions in an effort to somehow illegally cancel that lease.
Read the full article at Behind the Black
