Cobell v. Babbitt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that IIM beneficiaries have waited “a century” for “an accurate accounting” which is the “most basic fiduciary duty”
• stating that in general terms the Phase II trial “will involve the government bringing forward its proof on IIM trust balances and then plaintiffs making exceptions to that proof.”
• stating in an APA action that the tribes “cannot state common-law claims for breach of trust against these federal officials . . . .”
• laying out the contours of this Court’s remedial jurisdiction with respect to the nature of the plaintiffs’ claims
• reaching a decision after a trial at which the Secretary of the Interior testified - shortly after being held in civil contempt for violating the Court's discovery order
• finding commission of four specific accounting-related breaches of the 1994 Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).