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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

The incendiary legal battle over responsibility for the Moonlight wildfire, which scorched 65,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada seven years ago, has flared anew with charges of corruption and cover-up ...