Cobell, Elouise v. Norton, Gale A.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that where, during interim period between findings and issuance of the injunction, defendants “continued to submit status reports” and “otherwise fulfilled” their legal duties, it was error to ignore this progress when crafting injunctive relief
• chiding the district court for continuing with contempt proceedings after vacatur without reinitiating factfinding
• administrative deference owed when “choices at issue required both subject-matter expertise and judgment about the allocation of scarce resources”
• “[P]ost-enactment legislative history is not only oxymoronic but inherently entitled to little weight”
• “[P]pst-enactment legislative history is not only oxymoronic but inherently entitled to little weight”
• “In 1994 Congress passed legislation that acknowledged the fiduciary duties that the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Treasury—the defendants in this case—owed to beneficiaries of Individual Indian Money (“IIM”) accounts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).