Federal prosecutors accuse Sierra Pacific Industries of “scandal mongering” and “unscrupulous” tactics in company’s efforts to overturn settlement in Moonlight fire case. The 2007 blaze ...

This is our main lookout in the Moonlight Valley. I could just see all sorts of legal problems. The attorneys would say the main lookout is stoned and let a fire go….

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 ...

Sierra Pacific attorney William Warne had no immediate comment. After the Moonlight Fire erupted on Labor Day 2007 and raged for two weeks, federal and state investigators pinpointed the blame on ...

As Cal Fire battles a record fire season, ... for what a judge called a four-year-long campaign of “egregious” evidentiary violations in its probe of the 2007 Moonlight Fire, ...

Moonlight Fire. The Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that timber giant Sierra Pacific and others can’t duck a settlement with the feds over the 2007 Moonlight Fire, finding the company didn’t prove that ...

After what became known as the Moonlight Fire burned some 65,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada in 2007, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection decided that Sierra Pacific Industries ...

As I’ve noted before, the Moonlight Fire litigation centers around liability for a 2007 forest fire in California.The litigation heated up after a state trial court sanctioned the state ...

A major lawsuit for damages resulting from the Moonlight Fire was settled for an estimated value of at least $122.5 million, the largest recovery ever received by the United States for damages ...

State and federal officials have blamed Sierra Pacific Industries for the Moonlight Fire, which they said was caused by two unsupervised employees who operated bulldozers on a red-flag warning day ...

The fire was first reported Wednesday, according to a news release from the U.S. Forest Service. Firefighters are responding to the fire, called the Moonlight Fire, near Mink Lake Basin north of ...

The Moonlight fire blazed a 100-square-mile footprint through these mountains in 2007. About 60% burned at high severity, killing most or all of the vegetation, said Jonathan Kusel, ...