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Article: Appellate Court rules again; Department of Interior gets more time to fix trust
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- The Ojibwe News
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- December 17, 2004
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Pagano, Jean
Ojibwe News, The
12-17-2004
The United States Appellate Court for the District of Columbia ruled for
the second time in a week on the landmark Cobell v. Secretary of Interior
case. On December 10th, the Appellate Court addressed itself with the
Department of Interior's objections to U.S. District Judge Royce C.
Lamberth's September 2003 ruling that defined the Department of Interior's
obligations as trustee for Individual Indian Money (IIM) accounts.
The Cobell case began in 1996 amidst charges of incompetence regarding the
management of IIM accounts created in 1887 as part of the Dawes Act. Since
that time, according to the plaintiffs in Cobell, tens of billions of
dollars have either ...