IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ELOUISE PEPION COBELL, et al., ) ) No. 1:96CV01285 Plaintiffs, ) (Judge Robertson) v. ) ) DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Secretary of ) the Interior, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ) DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL DOCUMENTS SUPPLEMENTING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD On July 6, 2007, the Department of the Interior filed the Administrative Record (“AR”) in support of its Plan for Completing the Historical Accounting of Individual Indian Money Accounts, filed with the Court on May 31, 2007 (Dkt. No. 3333). By separate Notice, Defendants are filing today documents to supplement the AR. Two of these documents contain confidential Privacy Act information, protected under the Court’s Order of August 29, 2007 (Dkt. No. 3376) (extending the protections of the Order of November 27, 1996). This information has been redacted from the public version of these supplemental documents. For these reasons, Defendants respectfully request that the Court issue an Order permitting the filing under seal of the unredacted documents supplementing the AR (attached as Exhibit 1). Defendants’ counsel have contacted Plaintiffs’ counsel and they state that they do not oppose this motion. Dated: August 31, 2007 Respectfully submitted, PETER D. KEISLER Assistant Attorney General MICHAEL F. HERTZ Deputy Assistant Attorney General J. CHRISTOPHER KOHN Director /s/Robert E. Kirschman, Jr. ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR. D.C. Bar No. 406635 Deputy Director PHILLIP M. SELIGMAN Trial Attorney Commercial Litigation Branch Civil Division P.O. Box 875 Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044-0875 (202) 616-0328 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that, on August 31, 2007 the foregoing Defendants' Motion to File under Seal Documents Supplementing the Administrative Record was served by Electronic Case Filing, and on the following who is not registered for Electronic Case Filing, by facsimile: Earl Old Person (Pro se) Blackfeet Tribe P.O. Box 850 Browning, MT 59417 Fax (406) 338-7530 A copy of the Sealed Attachment was delivered to: Dennis Gingold Keith Harper 607 14th St., NW Washington, DC 20005 /s/ Jay St. John Jay St. John IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ELOUISE PEPION COBELL, et al., ) ) No. 1:96cv01285 (JR) Plaintiffs, ) v. ) ) DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Secretary of ) the Interior, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ____________________________________) NOTICE OF EXHIBIT UNDER SEAL The exhibit accompanying Defendants’ Motion to File Under Seal Documents Supplementing the Administrative Record has been filed under seal. Dated: August 31, 2007 Respectfully submitted, PETER D. KEISLER Assistant Attorney General MICHAEL F. HERTZ Deputy Assistant Attorney General J. CHRISTOPHER KOHN Director Robert E. Kirschman, Jr. ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, Jr. (D.C. Bar No. 406635) Deputy Director Commercial Litigation Branch Civil Division P.O. Box 875 Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044-0875 (202) 616-0328 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ELOUISE PEPION COBELL, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Case No. 1:96cv01285 (JR) ) DIRK KEMPTHORNE, ) Secretary of the Interior, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) __________________________________________) ORDER This matter comes before the Court on the unopposed Defendants’ Motion to File Under Seal Documents Supplementing the Administrative Record (Dkt. No. ). Upon consideration of the Defendants’ Motion, and the entire record of this case, it is hereby ORDERED that the Motion is GRANTED. SO ORDERED. Hon. James Robertson UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE United States District Court for the District of Columbia Date:______________