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Cobell attorneys working towards Senate approval of settlement
Friday, August 20, 2010
Filed Under: Cobell

Attorneys for the Indian trust fund lawsuit are hopeful the Senate will approve the $3.4 billion settlement to the case.

The House has voted for the settlement twice. Action has stalled in the Senate amid partisan issues and concerns about paying for it.

"We feel very comfortable we have more than enough votes to (pass) it," attorney Dennis Gingold told The Sioux Falls Argus Leader.

The deal provides $1.412 billion in payments to individual Indians. It creates a $2 billion land consolidation fund to buy land from willing individual sellers.

Get the Story:
Backers of Indian trust settlement seek payout (The Sioux Falls Argus Leader 8/20)

64.38.12.138/News/2010/021315.asp
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This is mdenney :

After reading this and fallowing Cobell Indian trust fund lawsuit for years and to have the United States Senate say this-

Senate amid partisan issues and concerns about paying for it.

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This is mdenney again my reply :

You have got to be kidding me about the United States Senate
amid partisan issues and concerns about paying for it.

Can you believe this its crazy after all the Trillion`s ?,000,000,000,000 or even Billion`s - ?,000,000,000 that the Goverment spent or was taken and they dare have issues and concerns about paying for it.

repo the White House cut the senates pay like they did ours .

Now that wasn`t hard was it .. I can see the crying now, but they couldn`t see our people crying could they ? .....

Sorry this just makes me mad ..

mdenney

[mdenney]

Washington Sketch: Judge Lamberth once again makes the news
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Filed Under: Cobell | Law

"In barring the Obama administration from funding human embryonic stem cell research, U.S. District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth this week added to a 23-year history of confounding presidents of both political parties from the bench of the politically sensitive court in the nation's capital.

Lamberth on Monday issued a preliminary injunction putting on hold President Obama's funding guidelines for stem cell research, ruling that experiments with such cells fall under an "unambiguous" 1996 law by Congress that prohibits federal funding of research that destroys human embryos. He acted after a three-judge appeals court overturned his move to dismiss the case, reversing his opinion that researchers who challenged the rules lacked legal standing to sue.

Lamberth, 67, is no stranger to controversy. Tall, garrulous and proudly Texan, Lamberth commands his court with the presence and wit of a Sydney Greenstreet character cast as a heroic defender of the Alamo.

Lamberth's most public misstep came in a landmark case brought by Native Americans over the Interior Department's century-long failure to account for hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties and rents owed to Indian landowners. He held two secretaries of the Interior - from the Clinton and Bush administration - in contempt of court and ordered sanctions against a half-dozen agency lawyers for improper conduct in the case.

"Our 'modern' Interior Department has time and again demonstrated that it is a dinosaur - the morally and culturally oblivious hand-me-down of a disgracefully racist and imperialist government that should have been buried a century ago," Lamberth wrote.

He was ultimately removed by an appeals court, however, which concluded that the public could question his objectivity. Still, some of his colleagues privately sided with his frustration with what he saw as government stonewalling and incompetence."

From link below-

64.38.12.138/News/2010/021358.asp

Get the Story:
Washington Sketch: Stem cell judge used to stirring things up (The Washington Post 8/25)

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082406608.html