Post by Moon Seeker on Jul 28, 2009 20:54:26 GMT -5
Court of Appeals rules in favour of American Indians
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Tue 28 July 2009
Category: General
Issue No: 2365
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) must provide an accounting in a 13-year class action lawsuit concerning the US Government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500 000 American Indians, says a Jurist report.
Both parties appealed against two separate rulings from the US District Court for the District of Columbia. In January 2008, Judge James Robertson ruled that the DOI 'unreasonably delayed' the accounting of billions of dollars of American Indian money, holding that it was impossible for the DOI or for Congress to remedy the breach, the report says.
Full Jurist report
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/federal-appeals-court-orders-interior.php
www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=2009072808153822
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Tue 28 July 2009
Category: General
Issue No: 2365
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) must provide an accounting in a 13-year class action lawsuit concerning the US Government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500 000 American Indians, says a Jurist report.
Both parties appealed against two separate rulings from the US District Court for the District of Columbia. In January 2008, Judge James Robertson ruled that the DOI 'unreasonably delayed' the accounting of billions of dollars of American Indian money, holding that it was impossible for the DOI or for Congress to remedy the breach, the report says.
Full Jurist report
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/federal-appeals-court-orders-interior.php
www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=2009072808153822