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23 hours ago ago from President Barack Obama
The Obama administration announced a $3.4 billion settlement today in a 13-year-old legal battle over the Interior Department's mismanagement of land trust accounts for American Indians. Under the agreement, which must be approved in court and requires authorizing legislation in Congress, the government would pay $1.4 billion minus attorneys' fees to hundreds of thousands of plaintiffs in the case, Cobell v. Salazar. Interior would ...
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21 hours ago ago from Native American Law Blog
Well, maybe. From Indian Country Today: WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has taken a definitive step to settle a long-running trust mismanagement class action lawsuit involving hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. The Department of the Interior announced Dec. 8 that it had negotiated a settlement to the Cobell v. Salazar litigation, which could amount to a $1.4 billion payback to Indian plaintiffs involved in the ...
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