081423P.pdf   08/17/2009  United States  v.  Northshore Mining Co.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-1423
                          and No:  08-1529
                          and No:  08-1533
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with John R. Gibson and Bye,
   Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Environmental law. Northshore received all of the relief it
   sought in its motion to dissolve the injunction in the case, and it lacked
   standing to appeal the order; nor did Northshore have standing to appeal
   the district court's collateral ruling denying its Rule 60(b) motion as the
   court's ruling on that motion was immaterial to the ultimate ruling
   vacating the injunction; the United States' appeal must also be dismissed
   because it was not aggrieved by the district court's order since its interest
   did not extend to air-emissions programs and the order involved only
   affects air emissions; with respect to the remaining appeal by Minnesota
   and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, those parties have failed to
   show that the district court abused its discretion by vacating sua sponte
   the injunction's air-emissions programs as the state and the agency have
   sufficient regulatory tools to monitor and control the plant's fibre
   emissions in ways which parallel the injunction.