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Chickasaw Nation et al v. Department of Interior et al

  1. September 25, 2015

    DOI To Pay Okla. Tribes $186M In Trust Land Management Row

    The U.S. Department of the Interior will pay a combined $186 million to the Choctaw Nation and the Chickasaw Nation to resolve claims the government failed in its responsibility to protect the tribes' trust land, according to a filing in an Oklahoma federal court Friday.

  2. July 06, 2015

    DOI, Okla. Tribes To Settle Land Mismanagement Claims

    The U.S. Department of the Interior has agreed to settle a complaint brought by the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation alleging the government failed in its responsibility to protect the tribes' trust land, according to an Oklahoma federal judge.

  3. July 01, 2015

    DOI Wants Chickasaw, Choctaw Trust Land Claims Tossed

    The federal government urged an Oklahoma federal court Tuesday to toss a complaint brought by the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation alleging the government failed in its responsibility to protect the tribes' trust land, saying a trial wasn't needed because the court lacked jurisdiction over the case.

  4. June 19, 2015

    Tribes Lose Expert In DOI Trust Land Row

    An Oklahoma federal judge on Thursday granted the U.S. Department of the Interior's request to disqualify law professor Andrew Kull as an expert in a dispute with the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation over tribal trust land, but denied the government's bid to toss three other experts.

  5. June 15, 2015

    DOI Wants Tribes' Expert Testimony Cut From Trust Land Row

    The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday questioned the relevance and reliability of four expert witnesses in a dispute with the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation over tribal trust land, urging an Oklahoma federal judge to exclude their testimony.

  6. June 08, 2015

    Okla. Tribes Fight For Expert Testimony In Trust Land Row

    The Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation urged an Oklahoma federal judge on Friday to allow expert testimony in a suit alleging the U.S. Department of the Interior failed to protect tribal trust land, arguing their four experts provided useful opinions the court can weigh at trial.

  7. June 03, 2015

    Okla. Tribes Lose Bid To Alter Timber Lands Ruling

    An Oklahoma federal judge on Wednesday denied the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation's request to revise an order that a 1906 federal law required the U.S. Department of the Interior to sell 1.3 million acres of the tribes' unallotted timber land.

  8. May 27, 2015

    Okla. Tribes Again Ask Judge To Alter Timberlands Ruling

    The Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation urged an Oklahoma federal judge again on Tuesday to revise his order that a 1906 federal law required the Department of the Interior to sell 1.3 million acres of the tribes' unallotted timberlands, arguing Congress had no power to remove the lands from allotment to be sold.

  9. May 19, 2015

    Tribes Rehashing Old Arguments On Timber Lands, Gov't Says

    The U.S. government urged an Oklahoma federal judge on Monday not to alter his ruling that a 1906 federal law required the Department of the Interior to sell 1.3 million acres of the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation's unallotted timber lands.

  10. April 23, 2015

    DOI Can Sell Tribes' Unallotted Timber Lands, Judge Says

    An Oklahoma federal judge on Wednesday determined that a 1906 federal law required the Department of the Interior to sell the Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation's unallotted timber lands, ending part of the tribes' suit seeking an accounting of the federal government's overall trusteeship of their interests.