COBELL v. NORTON

No. CIV.A. 96-1285(RCL).

226 F.Supp.2d 1 (2002)

Elouise Pepion COBELL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Gale A. NORTON, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 17, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith M. Harper, Lorna K. Babby, Native American Rights Fund, Dennis Marc Gingold, Elliott H. Levitas, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

Robert D. Luskin, Patton Boggs LLP, Tom C. Clark, Brian L. Ferrell, Andrew M. Eschen, Charles Walter Findlay, III, Sarah D. Himmelhoch, Sandra Marguerite Schraibman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Edith R. Blackwell, Washington, DC, John Charles Cruden, U.S. Dept. of Justice, ENR Division, Annandale, VA, Lewis Steven Wiener, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP, Mark E. Nagle, Robert Craig Lawrence, Scott Sutherland Harris, U.S. Attorney's Office, J. Christopher Kohn, Jo-Ann Shyloski, Barry Weiner, Henry A. Azar, Jr., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Terry M. Petrie, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Denver, CO, Seth Brandon Shapiro, Jonathan Brian New, Jennifer R. Rivera, Sandra Peavler Spooner, David J. Gottesman, Peter Blaze Miller, Cynthia L. Alexander, Mathew J. Fader, Amalia D. Kessler, John S. Most, Michael John Quinn, John J. Siemietkowski, Tracy Lyle Hilmer, Dodge Wells, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

LAMBERTH, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court after a twenty-nine day bench trial to determine whether defendants Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior, and Neal McCaleb, Assistant Secretary of Interior for Indian Affairs, should be held in civil contempt of court. After carefully reviewing of all the evidence presented and representations made at trial, the record in this case, and the applicable law, the Court...

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