INDIANS ASK COURT TO REINSTATE CONTEMPT FINDING AGAINST INTERIOR SECRETARY

[Wetzelbill]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 – Lawyers for a group of Indians today asked
the nine active judges who sit on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia to reinstate the civil contempt citations against Interior Secretary
Gale Norton and her top Indian affairs aide, former assistant Interior secretary
Neal McCaleb.

Norton and McCaleb were found to be unfit trustee-delegates as the
result of the fraud and other misconduct that U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
found they had perpetrated on his court in a lawsuit filed by the Indians. The
Indians are seeking a full accounting of individual Indian trust accounts.


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