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Five groups are supporting Elk Mountain Ranch owner Fred Eshelman’s petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that he cannot block the public from corner crossing to reach public land surrounded by his ranch.

The groups filed briefs Monday urging the Supreme Court to take up the matter. The 10th Circuit ruled earlier this year that four Missouri hunters did not trespass when they corner crossed to hunt on public land on Elk Mountain in Carbon County.

Eshelman wants that ruling overturned , claiming that the hunters trespassed. They did not touch his land but passed through the airspace above his property.

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