Cliven Bundy sues Nevada, seeking court order to declare federally-owned lands property of the state
Note: This article was published nearly two weeks ago, but because of the notoriety of some of the people mentioned and their spitefulness I thought it was worth posting.
Controversial rancher Cliven Bundy has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order that Nevadas federally owned lands are the property of the state and to force the state and county to defend Bundys land rights on his Bunkerville cattle ranch.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in Clark County District Court by Nevada attorney Craig Mueller, who recently lost a primary bid for state attorney general, and Larry Klayman, a prominent right-wing activist lawyer who founded the group Judicial Watch and gained notoriety from promoting the false claim that former President Barack Obama was born in a foreign country.
The suit echoes many of the claims of federal government overreach and public lands management that brought Bundy national notoriety during a 2014 standoff between the federal Bureau of Land Management and Bundys family and supporters over unpaid grazing fees the rancher had refused to pay since the early 1990s. The rancher and several co-defendants were charged in 2016 in connection with the standoff, but a federal judge dismissed the case in January.
Klayman, who unsuccessfully sought to represent Bundy in the 2016 case, also filed a civil complaint on the ranchers behalf in January but it was dismissed five months later, according to the
Las Vegas Review-Journal. Klayman is also representing two of the former defendants from the standoff case in a lawsuit asking for $60 million from the federal prosecutors who took them to trial.
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https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/cliven-bundy-sues-nevada-seeking-court-order-to-declare-federally-owned-lands-property-of-the-state