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 Supreme Court is turning back a push by the state of Utah to wrest control of vast areas of public land from the federal government.

The announcement came quietly, with Lyman’s legal motion appearing on the list of cases that were turned down by the nation’s final court of appeal over the weekend, marking t