U.S. Seeks to Replace Judge In Long Case of Indian Trusts

[Rose Siding]

The Justice Department took the unusual step yesterday of asking that a new judge be assigned to a nine-year-old lawsuit by American Indians seeking a century's worth of unpaid oil and natural gas royalties.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has been highly critical of the Interior Department for failing to identify how much money Indian tribes are owed. Last year the judge held Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton in contempt of court.

Lamberth's "legal errors and unconventional case management" are impeding an accounting of the royalties, the Justice Department said in a 20-page filing asking a federal appeals court to order a change in judges.

The Justice Department said that a July 12, 2005, ruling by Lamberth "is unlike any other judicial opinion that we have ever seen." The department criticized Lamberth for making a "gratuitous reference" to murder, dispossession, forced marches and other incidents of cultural genocide against the Indians.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/15/AR2005081501326.html

[bemildred]

1. Now we find out how much integrity the legal system really has. nt

[mike_c]

2. gee-- I wonder if all the "gratuitious" murder, dispossession, and...

...forced marching had anything to do with her reference? The U.S. Gov't is still trying to rewrite the history of America's first genocide.

[ellie]

3. Once again, instead of

facing up to the problem, buscho is going to change the players in an attempt to get a favorable ruling. How many are willing to bet that this is going to happen to Fitzgerald as well? A lot of people, I imagine. This whole thing makes me sick. Give them their money! We can give Halliburton billions!

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Didn't they do this with the tobacco lawsuit and in CA with the

Enron thingie, thanks to the disingenuous Arnold?

[salin]

5. forget reality - forget our bad behavior - we just ignore the

rulings we don't like, suppress or rewrite the scientific studies we don't like, replace the judge who make rulings we don't like, or just straight out make sh*t up and call it "intelligence" to recreate our own "reality." Republican bushites an delayites of the new century.