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Senate Rejects $3 Billion Indian Trust Settlement
Posted on 23 Jul 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

HELENA, Mont. - (AP) The U.S. Senate has rejected a $3.4 billion government settlement with American Indians that had been added to a much larger war-funding bill. The Senate passed the almost $60 billion bill funding President Obama's troop surge... Read More

Tags: Interior Department , Elouise Cobell , American Indians , class action , Obama , war funding , Litigation , Senate , trust , lawsuit , Settlement , Democrats , Native Americans

No Vote From U.S. Senate On Indian Trust Settlement
Posted on 29 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

HELENA, Mont. - (AP) Supporters of a $3.4 billion government settlement with American Indians will have to keep waiting. The U.S. Senate is scheduled to adjourn Wednesday without giving the Obama administration the authority to settle a class-action lawsuit... Read More

Tags: Elouise Cobell , American Indians , class action , Obama , Indian landowners , U.S. Senate , Litigation , trust , lawsuit , settle

$3.4B Indian Settlement Added To War Funding Bill
Posted on 2 Jul 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

HELENA, Mont. - (AP) The U.S. House of Representatives attached a $3.4 billion government settlement with Indian trust beneficiaries to a war-funding bill that it passed just before breaking for the July Fourth holiday. The settlement was one of several... Read More

Tags: Interior Department , Elouise Cobell , American Indians , class action , war-funding bill , Indians , Litigation , trust , lawsuit , Settlement , Blackfeet