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Attorney: John Echohawk
Case Update
John Echohawk hopes to continue his role as Of Counsel in this case following the completion of conflicts checks with our tribal clients in the tribal trust funds case, Nez Perce v. Kempthorne. We filed this case along with private attorneys in 1996 to force the federal government to provide an accounting to the 500,000 past and current individual Indian money account holders who have their funds held in trust by the federal government. The courts have held that the government is in breach of trust and mst provide the accounting. Most recently, on January 30 the federal district court found that it was impossible for the government to perform the accounting due to a lack of records and subsequently ordered that a trial be held beginning June 8 to provide an alternative remedy to the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs are requesting the court to order the government to restore $58 billion to the accounts that the government has benefitted from and never paid out to the account holders. The government denies that it has the money and assets and that the court has no jurisdiction to order such a remedy.
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