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WESTERN SHOSHONE IDENTIFIABLE GROUP, ETC. v. U. S.

No. 326-K.

652 F.2d 41 (1981)

The WESTERN SHOSHONE IDENTIFIABLE GROUP, represented by the TEMOAK BANDS OF WESTERN SHOSHONE INDIANS, NEVADA v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

June 3, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Roy Thompson, Jr., Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for the Claims Attorneys.

Robert W. Barker, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for plaintiff. Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Thomas E. Luebben, Albuquerque, N. M., attorney of record, for the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, the Battle Mountain Indian Community and the Western Shoshone Sacred Lands Association. Claudia Ingram, Indian Law Resource Center, and Luebben, Hughes & Kelly, Albuquerque, N. M., of counsel.

Richard L. Beal, Washington, D. C., with whom was Acting Asst. Atty. Gen. Anthony C. Liotta, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

Before FRIEDMAN, Chief Judge, and BENNETT and SMITH, Judges.

OPINION

BENNETT, Judge:

This case comes before the court on two requests for review of the opinion and decision filed November 13, 1980, by Trial Judge James F. Merow, in the matter of a claim for attorneys' fees. The first request, filed December 15, 1980, is submitted by the claims attorneys who won a judgment of $26,145,189.89 for plaintiffs before the Indian Claims Commission.1 The trial judge awarded the attorneys a fee...

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