FLETCHER v. U.S.

No. 16-5050.

854 F.3d 1201 (2017)

William S. FLETCHER, individually, and as member of the Osage Development Council, and on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated; Juanita W. West; Cora Jean Jech; Betty Woody, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Charles A. Pratt, individually, and as member of the Osage Development Council, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America; Department of Interior; Ryan Zinke, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Michael S. Black, in his official capacity as Acting Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs, United States Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Filed April 21, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason B. Aamodt ( Dallas L.D. Strimple of Indian and Environmental Law Group, PLLC; J. David Jorgenson and Mark A. Waller of Waller, Jorgenson, Warzynski, PLLC; G. Steven Stidham of Levinson, Smith & Huffman, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Amanda S. Proctor of Shield Law Group, PLLC, Jenks, Oklahoma, with him on the brief), Indian and Environmental Law Group, PLLC; Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Anna T. Katselas ( Joseph H. Kim and Katherine W. Hazard of U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division; John C. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General; Kenneth Dalton , Director, Dondrae Maiden , Ericka Howard and Kristen Kokinos , Attorney-Advisors of Indian Trust Litigation, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, with him on the brief), U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

Before KELLY, EBEL, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiffs-Appellants, a certified class of Osage tribal members who own headrights, appeal from the district court's accounting order made pursuant to 25 U.S.C. § 4011. Fletcher v. United States, 153 F.Supp.3d 1354 (N.D. Okla. 2015). Our jurisdiction arises...

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