DOJ: Cobell v. Norton, et al. Case No. 1:96CV01285 (D.D.C.)

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Cobell v. Norton, et al.

Case No. 1:96CV01285 (D.D.C.)

February, 2004 Filings

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**Cobell Case Documents**
Date and Summary	Full Title
February 24, 2004 Government asks Court to strike plaintiffs' motion that, in addition to being utterly baseless, is causing procedural chaos, unnecessary burden on the government and its employees and is harrassing to Named Individuals	Defendants' Motion to Strike Plaintiffs' Motion to Show Cause Against Individuals or, in the Alternative, for a Protective Order to Preclude Service upon Individuals of Plaintiffs' Motion to Show Cause and to Relieve Obligation of Individuals to Respond PDF OCR
February 20, 2004 Government replies that plaintiffs have shown neither the right to nor need for deposition of Interior's Special Trustee for American Indians at this time	Defendants' Reply in Support of Motion for a Protective Order Regarding Plaintiffs' Notice of Deposition of Ross Swimmer PDF OCR
February 13, 2004 Government opposes plaintiffs' requests for costs that is defective in various respects	Surreply of the United States in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for an Order to Show Cause Why the Department of the Interior, Secretary Gale Norton, and Her Senior Managers and Counsel Should Not Be Held in Civil and Criminal Contempt for Violating Court Orders (Redacted Public Version) PDF OCR
February 06, 2004 Government responds to plaintiffs' attempt to deem Secretary Norton as having conceded contempt allegations because she did not file a separate brief in her individual capacity, noting that the Court has previously found that the Secretary "...is a party to the present suit solely in her official capacity as the Secretary of Interior, not in her individual capacity."	Memorandum of the United States in Response to Plaintiffs' Motion that Secretary Norton Be Deemed to Have Conceded Plaintiffs' Motion of January 13, 2004 Asserting Violations of Court Orders PDF OCR
February 06, 2004 Government responds to plaintiffs' attempt to deem government employees as having conceded contempt allegations because they did not file separate briefs in their individual capacities, noting that the underlying motion fails to make any distinction between official and personal acts and, in any event, fails to state with specificity the acts that would allegedly give rise to contempt	Memorandum of the United States in Response to Plaintiffs' Motion that Steven Griles, James Cason, Hord Tipton, Robert McCallum, Peter Keisler, Stuart Schiffer, Christopher Kohn, Sandra Spooner, John Stemplewicz, Glenn Gillett, and John Warshawsky Be Deemed to Have Conceded Plaintiffs' Motion of January 13, 2004 Asserting Violations of Court Orders PDF OCR
February 02, 2004 Interior's sixteenth report on the status of IIM trust reform	Notice of Filing of Interior Defendant's Sixteenth Status Report PDF OCR

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