United States DC Circuit

In a dispute between beneficiaries of Indian land trusts and their trustee, the U.S., an injunction requiring many of the Department of the Interior's computer systems to be disconnected from the internet and internal computer networks is vacated as the district court's broad grant of equitable relief was an abuse of discretion.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2006
• Decided 07/11/2006
• Published 07/11/2006

Judges

• Before:  TATEL and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark B. Stern, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellants.   With him on the briefs were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. Attorney, Gregory G. Katsas, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Robert E. Kopp, Thomas M. Bondy, Alisa B. Klein, Mark R. Freeman, I. Glenn Cohen, and Isaac J. Lidsky, Attorneys.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis M. Gingold argued the cause for appellees.   With him on the brief were Elliott H. Levitas, G. William Austin, III, Mark I. Levy, and Keith M. Harper.