COBELL v. NORTON

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

231 F.Supp.2d 315 (2002)

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

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 12, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith M. Harper, Lorna K. Babby, Dennis Marc Gingold, Elliot H. Levitas, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Robert D. Luskin, Patton Boggs LLP, Tom C. Clark, U.S. Department of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Division, Brian L. Ferrell, Andrew M. Eschen, U.S. Department of Justice, Charles Walter Findlay, III, Sarah D. Himmelhoch, U.S. Department of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Division, Sandra Marguerite Schraibman, U.S. Department of Justice Federal Programs Branch, Edith R. Blackwell, Washington, DC, John Charles Cruden, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Annandale, VA, Lewis Steven Wiener, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Mark E. Nagle, Robert Craig Lawrence, Scott Sutherland Harris, U.S. Attorney's Office, J. Christopher Kohn, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, Henry A. Azar, Jr., U.S. Department of Justice Federal Programs Branch, Seth Brandon Shapiro, U.S. Department Civil Division, Jonathan Brian New, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Jennifer R. Rivera, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Sandra Peavler Spooner, david J. Gottesman, Peter Blaze Miller, Cynthia L. Alexander, Mathew J. Fader, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, John Stemplewicz, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Amalia D. Kessler, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, Phillip Martin Seligman, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Michael John Quinn, Gino D. Vissicchio, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, John Warshawsky, John J. Siemietkowski, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, John R. Kresse, Timothy E. Curley, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, Tracey Lyle Hilmer, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Dodge Wells, U.S. Department of Justice, Herbert Lawrence Fenster, McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP, Elizabeth Wallace Fleming, B. Michael Rauh, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Lawrence H. Wechsler, Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler, Donald Michael Barnes, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, David Booth Beers, Shea & Gardner, Washington, DC, William Aaron Dobrovir, Sperryville, VA, Pamela J. Marple, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, L.L.P., Timothy Patrick Garren, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Erik Lloyd Kitchen, Steptoe & Johnson, L.L.P., Martha Purcell Rogers, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Michael R. Bromwich, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Amy Berman Jackson, Trout & Richards, P.L.L.C., Roger Eric Zuckerman, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, Kathleen Elizabeth Voelker, Stephen M. Byers, Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Leslie B. Kiernan, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, L. Barrett Boss, Asbill, Moffitt & Boss, Chartered, Plato Cacheris, John Francis Hundley, Baker & McKensie, Sydney Jean Hoffmann, The Law Offices of Plato Cacheris, Barbara Ann Van Gelder, Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP, William Holt Briggs, Jr., Laura C. Zimmitti, Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP, Thomas Edward Wilson, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, L.L.P., Mary Lou Soller, Miller & Chevalier, Chartered, Jeffrey David Robinson, Melissa Heitmann McNiven, Baach, Robinson & Lewis, Dwight Phillip Bostwick, Washington, DC, Larry Allen Nathens, Robert W. Biddle, Bennett & Nathans, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, John Kenneth Zwerling, P.C., Lisa Bondareff Kemler, Zwerling & Kemler, Alexandria, VA, Russell David Duncan, Lisa Ann Freiman Fishberg, Coburn & Schertler, E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, L.L.P., David Didney Krakoff, Alessio D. Evangelista, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Michael D. Goodstein, Resolution Law Group, PC, Washington, DC, Bradley Stuart Lui, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, McLean, VA, Stanley M. Brand, Andrew Dewald Herman, Brand & Frulla, P.C., Marshall L. Matz, Olsson, Frank & Weeda, P.C., Jefferson McClure Gray, D. Jacques Smith, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, Emily M. Yinger, Hogan & Hartson, McLean, VA, William Leonard Gardner, Brian Michael Privor, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Hamilton Phillips Fox, III, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Christopher J. Lovrien, Robert Christopher Cook, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, Dennis Marc Gingold, Washington, DC, for Non Parties.

Alan Lee Balaran, Washington, DC, for Special Master.

Richard Lee Cys, Davis Wright Tremaine, Jonathan K. Tycko, Tycko Zavareei, LLP, Washington, DC, Christopher B. Mead, London & Mead, Washington, DC, Nathaniel Davis Owens, Sr., Anniston, AL, Jill Elise Grant, Washington, DC, Neil James Ruther, Towson, MD, for Movants.

Albert Lee Bynum, Gadsden, AL, Pro se.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LAMBERTH, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiffs' Motion for Order to Show Cause Why Secretary Norton and Her Counsel Should Not Be Held in Contempt and For Sanctions For Violating the Special Master's February 8, 2001 Order and the Court's Orders of February 24, 1999 and August 12, 1999 ("Motion for Order to Show Cause") [704], and defendants' responses [714, 747] and plaintiffs' reply [718] thereto...

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