CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA v. U.S.

No. 99CV92.

190 F.Supp.2d 1248 (2001)

CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA; and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and Michael H. Trujillo, Director of the Indian Health Service, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Oklahoma.

June 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weldon W. Stout, Jr., Bart Fite, Muskogee, OK, Lloyd Benton Miller, Devin R. Odell, Anchorage, AK, William R. Perry, Anne D. Noto, James E. Glaze, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Bruce Green, Linda A. Epperley, U.S. Atty., Muskogee, OK, Lisa Olson, Sheila M. Lieber, David W. Ogden, Civil Div., Washington, DC, for Defendants.


ORDER

SEAY, District Judge.

Before the court for its consideration is the plaintiffs Cherokee Nation and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes' motion for partial summary judgment of liability on the first and second causes of action and the plaintiffs' motion for declaratory judgment on the third cause of action. Also at issue is the defendants' cross motion for summary judgment.

I Facts

The court finds the facts as follows. The Indian...

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