The U.S. Supreme Court declined to allow Utah’s request to file a lawsuit that disputed the federal government’s possession of over 18.5 million acres of land in the state.
The Supreme Court denied Utah’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint in Utah v. United States on Jan. 13. The motion was filed in August 2024.
No other court has heard the case. Utah had asked the Supreme Court to be the first, citing the high court’s so-called original jurisdiction in inter-governmental disputes under the U.S. Constitution, but the justices did not grant the state’s motion….