Jerri Joette Tillett v. Bureau of Land Management;

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JERRI JOETTE TILLETT,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT; et
al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
No. 17-35399
D.C. No. 1:16-cv-00148-SPW-TJC
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Montana
Susan P. Watters, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted August 9, 2017**
Before: SCHROEDER, TASHIMA, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Jerri Joette Tillett appeals pro se from the district court’s order denying her
motion for a preliminary injunction in her action challenging the Bureau of Land
Management, Interior Board of Land Appeals, and the United States Department of
the Interior’s (collectively, “BLM”) management of the Pryor Mountain Wild
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
FILED
AUG 17 2017
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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Horse Range (“PMWHR”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a). We
review for an abuse of discretion. Jackson v. City & County of San Francisco, 746
F.3d 953, 958 (9th Cir. 2014). We affirm.
The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Tillett’s request for
preliminary injunctive relief. See id. (setting forth standard for issuance of
preliminary injunction). Tillett failed to demonstrate that she would likely suffer
irreparable harm from the use of control burns on the PMWHR in light of BLM’s
agreement to delay implementing such control burn measures until at least
September 2017. See Am. Trucking Ass’ns, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles, 559 F.3d
1046, 1052 (9th Cir. 2009) (“[A]n injunction cannot issue merely because it is
possible that there will be an irreparable injury to the plaintiff; it must be likely that
there will be.”). Tillett also failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the
merits of her challenge to the use of pesticides and herbicides on the PMWHR in
light of the district court’s prior denial of her nearly identical claims. See
Headwaters Inc. v. U.S. Forest Serv., 399 F.3d 1047, 1052 (9th Cir. 2005) (setting
forth test for application of the doctrine of res judicata).
We do not consider arguments and allegations raised for the first time on
appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).
We do not consider documents and facts not presented to the district court.
See United States v. Elias, 921 F.2d 870, 874 (9th Cir. 1990) (“Documents or facts

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not presented to the district court are not part of the record on appeal.”).
We reject as unsupported by the record Tillett’s contentions regarding
alleged judicial misconduct.
AFFIRMED.

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