The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Utah’s lawsuit aimed at wresting control of more than 18 million acres of public land in the state from the federal government. In its lawsuit, filed in August,

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit by Utah that argued the federal government was unconstitutionally holding onto vast, unreserved swathes of the Republican-led state's territory comprising more than a third of the land within its borders.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Phil Lyman's challenge to the primary process used by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. Lyman said he will keep fighting.

The state in August filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare the federal Bureau of Land Management’s ownership of 18.5 million acres of land in Utah unconstitutional.

The high court refused to let the GOP-controlled state file a lawsuit to bring the land and its resources under state control

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a bid from the state of Utah to seize control of federally-owned lands. The court denied the state’s petition, writing in a brief statement: “The motion for

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from former Utah gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman, who sought to challenge the state's primary election process