United States Federal Circuit

In a class action brought against the government under the Little Tucker Act for breach of trust based on what plaintiffs asserted was the Secretary of the Interior's unreasonable delay in distributing to them their share of the Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund, an award for plaintiffs is reversed where the district court erred in its determination that plaintiffs were entitled to money damages as a result of the Secretary's breach of trust.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2007
• Published 01/24/2007

Judges

• SCHALL, Circuit Judge., Before LOURIE, SCHALL, and DYK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark V. Meierhenry, Danforth & Meierhenry, LLP, of Sioux Falls, SD, argued for plaintiff-appellee.   Of counsel was John M. Grossenburg, Grossenburg Law Office, of Winner, SD., Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Attorney, Appellate Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellant.   With her on the brief was Sue Ellen Wooldridge, Assistant Attorney General.