Tenth Circuit Decides Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town v. United States

Here is the opinion in Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town v. United States.

Briefs here.

Tenth Circuit Briefs in Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town v. United States

Here:

Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town Opening Brief

Muscogee Answer Brief

US Brief

Reply to MCN Brief

Reply to US Brief

Case materials here.

Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town Loses Challenge Related to Wetumka Project

Here are the materials in Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town v. United States (E.D. Okla.):

202-tribal-motion-for-summary-j

207-us-response

210-tribal-reply

217-us-reply

218-dct-order

Title Action against Muscogee (Creek) Nation Trust Lands Dismissed

Here are the materials in Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town v. United States (E.D. Okla.):

182 Muscogee Creek Motion to Dismiss

185 Response

186 US Acquiescence

188 Reply

193 DCT Order

Trust Accounting Case re: Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town

Here is the opinion in Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town v. United States (E.D. Okla.): Alabama-Quassrte Tribal Town v. United States. The court denied the government’s motion for summary judgment.

An excerpt:

In its Complaint, Plaintiff requests: (1) a declaratory judgment that the Defendants have failed to fulfill the legal obligations and duties as trustee by, among other things, failing to provide the Plaintiff with a full accounting of the Plaintiff’s trust funds and by failing to assign the Wetumka Project lands as originally intended and as Congress had envisioned through the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936, 25 U.S.C. §§ 501, et seq. (hereinafter “OIWA”); and (2) an injunction compelling the Department of the Interior Defendants to make the assignment to the Plaintiff of trust lands owed under the OIWA and to provide the Plaintiff with a full and complete accounting of all of the Plaintiff’s trust funds and assets.

On November 17, 2008, the court granted Defendants’ motion for partial judgment on the pleadings as to the Wetumka Project lands and dismissed those claims. Docket No. 50. The only claims remaining are the trust accounting claims. Plaintiff still seeks a full and complete accounting of its trust funds and assets.