RAMAH NAVAJO CHAPTER v. BABBITT

No. Civ 90-0957 LHWWD.

50 F.Supp.2d 1091 (1999)

RAMAH NAVAJO CHAPTER, and other similarly situated entities, Plaintiffs, v. Bruce BABBITT, Secretary of the Interior; Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Robert J. Williams, Acting Chief of the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior; and The United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Mexico.

Order Entering Amended Judgment May 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Gross, M.P. Gross & Associates, P.C., c/o Gallegos Law Firm, Santa Fe, NM, for Ramah Navajo Chapter, plaintiff and class counsel, C. Bryant Rogers, Roth VanAmberg, Rogers, Ortiz, Fairbanks & Yepa, P.C., Co-Counsel, Sante Fe NM, and Steven L. Tucker Law Firm, P.C., Sante Fe, NM, for plaintiffs.

John W. Zavitz, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, for Manuel Lujan, Individually and as Secretary of the Interior, defendant.

John W. Zavitz, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, for Eddie Brown, Individually and as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, defendant.

John W. Zavitz, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, for Marvin Pierce, Individually and as Chief of Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior, defendant.

John W. Zavitz, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Richard A. Winterbottom, Stout & Winterbottom, Albuquerque, NM, Kay E. Maassen Gouwens, Anchorage, AK, for USA, defendant.

Richard A. Winterbottom, Stout & Winterbottom, Albuquerque, NM, Kay E. Maassen Gouwens, Anchorage, AK, for Chugachmiut, amicus.

Michael P. Gross, Law Office of Michael P. Gross, c/o Gallegos Law Firm, Santa Fe, NM, for Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc., amicus.

Craig J. Dorsay, Portland, OR, for Confederated Tribes of SiletzIndians of Oregon, movant.

Craig J. Dorsay, Portland, OR, Frank R. Jozwiak, Morisset, Schlosser, Ayer & Jozwiak, Seattle, WA, for Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Makah Indian Tribe, movants.

Thomas W. Christie, Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Gallup, NM, for Navajo Nation, movant.

Christopher A. Holland, Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Albuquerque, NM, Michael L. Chiropolos, Law Office of John Schumacher, Ft. Washakie, WY, John C. Schumacher, Law Office of John Schumacher, Ft. Washakie, WY, for Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, movant.

Mark Anderson, Jacobson, Buffalo, Schoessler & Magnuson, Ltd, Minneapolis, MN, for Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, movant.

Edward B. Reinhardt Jr., Albuquerque, NM, Thomas M. Disselhorst, Bismarck, ND, for United Tribes Technical College, movant.

Lisa M. Enfield, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash & Frye, Albuquerque, NM, Philip Baker-Shenk, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Washington, DC, for Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Central Council of Thingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alasaka, Ketchikan Indian Corporation an I.R.A. Tribe, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Redding Rancheria, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Spokane Tribe, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, Gila River Indian Community, Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, movants.

Craig J. Dorsay, Portland, OR, for Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians or Oregon, movant.

Theodore W. Barudin, Ted Barudin & Associates, PC, Albuquerque, NM, Amy T Mignella, Whiteriver, AZ, for White Mountain Apache Tribe, movant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION MAKING FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, APPROVING PARTIAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, AND AWARDING ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COSTS

HANSEN, District Judge.

THIS MATTER comes before the Court on the parties' Joint Motion for Preliminary and Final Approval of Partial Settlement Agreement and Order that Notice be Sent to the Class (Docket No. 195), filed August 31, 1998, and the Application of Class Counsel for an Award...

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