Law360, New York (August 08, 2008, 12:00 AM ET) -- After a 12-year lawsuit alleging the U.S. government grossly mismanaged a trust for American Indian landowners and owed them billions of dollars, a federal judge has awarded the class $455 million.
Judge James Robertson, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled on Thursday that the plaintiffs' calculations claiming the U.S. government owed them $4 billion were flawed.
For more than 120 years, the class-action suit claims, the Department of the Interior mishandled more than $100 billion in oil, gas, timber, mineral and...
American Indians Win Small Victory Over U.S. Govt.
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