On July 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided the case of United States v. Sierra Pacific Industries, et al. This is referred to as the “Moonlight Fire” case. The Ninth Circuit ...

QUINCY, Calif. (CN) - California cannot recoup millions from a logging company for a 2007 wildfire that charred over 100 square miles of forest, a Plumas County judge ruled. State and federal ...

Haze hangs over firefighters battling the Moonlight fire in 2007. Anne Chadwick Williams Sacramento Bee A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected efforts by Sierra Pacific Industries to back out of ...

Judge William Shubb will hear the government’s motion to disqualify all defense attorneys for Sierra Pacific. EXCLUSIVE: Those who dared expose government corruption in the Moonlight Fire case have ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A Plumas County Superior Court judge has dismissed a state lawsuit against California's largest timber company for a 2007 wildfire that destroyed more than 100 square miles of forest ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) - Sierra Pacific Industries can sue its subcontractor's insurer over the Moonlight Fire, a Labor Day 2007 blaze that consumed 65,000 acres in Plumas and Lassen Counties, a ...

After a decade of fighting the Department of Justice about their role in the 2007 Moonlight Fire, billionaire Red Emmerson and his timber outfit, Sierra Pacific Industries, have lost again. The ...

Feb. 06--In a blistering ruling against Cal Fire, a judge in Plumas County has found the agency guilty of "egregious and reprehensible conduct" in its response to the 2007 Moonlight fire and ordered ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... First there’s the spark, then the conflagration, followed by the litigation and then, surely, the movie. Call it “Moonlight Fire,” and prepare to suspend ...