Court Opinion

ID: 2757791
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Date Created: 2014-12-04 21:00:58.561929+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                                 DEC 4 2014

                                                                          MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JERRI JOETTE TILLETT,                             No. 13-35139

               Plaintiff - Appellant,             D.C. No. 1:12-cv-00087-RFC

  v.
                                                  MEMORANDUM*
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT,

               Defendant - Appellee.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                            for the District of Montana
                    Richard F. Cebull, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted November 18, 2014**

Before:        LEAVY, FISHER, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

       Jerri Joette Tillett appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment

dismissing her action seeking to enjoin the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”)

from moving wild horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal for lack of

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
subject matter jurisdiction, including questions of mootness. Sample v. Johnson,

771 F.2d 1335, 1338 (9th Cir. 1985). We affirm.

      The district court properly dismissed Tillett’s action for injunctive relief as

moot because the BLM moved the horses during the pendency of this action, and,

thus, the district court could no longer provide any meaningful relief. See

Gator.com Corp. v. L.L. Bean, Inc., 398 F.3d 1125, 1129 (9th Cir. 2005) (en banc)

(a claim is moot where “changes in the circumstances that prevailed at the

beginning of litigation have forestalled any occasion for meaningful relief”

(citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).

      We reject as without merit Tillett’s contention that she was denied due

process by the district court or by the Interior Board of Land Appeals of the

Department of the Interior.

      AFFIRMED.

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