Federal appeals court orders Interior Department to account in Indian Trust case
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) must provide an accounting in a 13-year class action lawsuit [plaintiffs' website;...
Federal judge awards Native Americans $455M in land trust mismanagement case
US District Judge James Robertson on Thursday ruled in a 12-year class action lawsuit concerning the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 Native Americans. Plaintiffs...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia began hearings Monday in Cobell v. Kempthorne , a class-action suit brought in 1996 alleging US government mismanagement of trust funds for a group of...
Federal judge promises to set dollar figure on US mismanagement of Indian trust
US District Judge James Robertson said Monday in a court hearing that he would set a dollar figure on the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 Native Americans in...
A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday scheduled a June trial to resolve the decade-old Indian Trust case . In January, US District Judge...
Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al., v. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 30, 2008 [ruling that the US Department of the Interior unreasonably delayed the accounting of billions of...
US Interior Department 'unreasonably delayed' Indian Trust accounting: judge
A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday ruled that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) "unreasonably delayed" the accounting of billions of dollars of American Indian money...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday conducted an evidentiary hearing in the decade-old Indian Trust case . The class-action suit involves the alleged mismanagement by the...
Indian Trust plaintiffs reject $7 billion US settlement offer
Native American plaintiffs in the decade-old Indian Trust case have rejected a new $7 billion settlement proposal from the US government but the chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee nonetheless says...
Plaintiffs in the 10-year-old Indian Trust case on Monday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reconsider a decision to pull an outspoken judge [JURIST...
