52 F. Supp. 2d 11 - Cobell v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2016
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 161 · 25 U.S.C. § 161A · 25 U.S.C. § 162A · 25 U.S.C. § 331 (White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985) · 25 U.S.C. § 348 · 25 U.S.C. § 4011 · 25 U.S.C. § 4041 · 25 U.S.C. § 4042
Relies on United States v. Mitchell · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians · Hughes Aircraft Co. v. Jacobson · Nevada v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“the fiduciary relationship that serves as the basis of plaintiffs’ breach of trust claims is grounded in and defined by statute and has arisen from the pervasive, complete federal governmental control of plaintiffs' IIM funds.” Cobell III, 52 F.Supp.2d at 24 . 12 . It is worth noting that the Court also”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither logic nor the case law supports defendants’ position; to the contrary, both point toward the availability of these remedies... .With the exception of the removal of the government as trustee, plaintiffs are entitled to seek standard common law remedies for breach of their IIM trust rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court has no present intention to entertain a request to sit as a pseudo-congressional oversight body that tells defendants everything that they must do to meet their obligations programmatically. That is a role that only Congress can fulfill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cobell v. Norton
How this case has been treated — in progress
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