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LITTLEWOLF v. HODEL

Civ. A. No. 87-822.

681 F.Supp. 929 (1988)

Edna Emerson LITTLEWOLF, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Donald Paul HODEL, et al., Defendants, and State of Minnesota, et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

March 17, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Odle, Jr., Alan J. Weinschel, R. Bruce Rich, Steven C. Schwartz, and Melissa G. Salten, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Washington, D.C., Michael D. Ratner, David Cole, and Mahlon Perkins, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Edward J. Passarelli, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., Michael D. Cox and Mariana Shulstad, Office of the Sol., U.S. Dept. of Interior, and on brief, F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Roger J. Marzulla, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

James M. Schoessler, Asst. Atty. Gen., William A. Szotkowski, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and, on brief, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., State of Minn., St. Paul, Minn., for defendant-intervenor State of Minn.

Bruce J. Terris and Kathryn A. Bleecker, Terris, Edgecombe, Hecker & Wayne, Washington, D.C., Charles K. Dayton and Nancy Wiltgen Reibert, Pepin Dayton Herman & Graham, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants-intervenors Becker, Clearwater and Mahnomen Counties.

INTRODUCTION

CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.

In this case, plaintiffs, twenty-two members of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians, seek a judgment declaring that the White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985 ("the White Earth Act" or "the Act") is unconstitutional. In the alternative, plaintiffs ask the Court to find that the defendants have failed to abide by certain trust obligations owed to plaintiffs; if the Court so finds, they also...

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