Trust Accounting Case re: Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town

Here is the opinion in Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town v. United States (E.D. Okla.): Alabama-Quassrte Tribal Town v. United States. The court denied the government’s motion for summary judgment.

An excerpt:

In its Complaint, Plaintiff requests: (1) a declaratory judgment that the Defendants have failed to fulfill the legal obligations and duties as trustee by, among other things, failing to provide the Plaintiff with a full accounting of the Plaintiff’s trust funds and by failing to assign the Wetumka Project lands as originally intended and as Congress had envisioned through the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936, 25 U.S.C. §§ 501, et seq. (hereinafter “OIWA”); and (2) an injunction compelling the Department of the Interior Defendants to make the assignment to the Plaintiff of trust lands owed under the OIWA and to provide the Plaintiff with a full and complete accounting of all of the Plaintiff’s trust funds and assets.

On November 17, 2008, the court granted Defendants’ motion for partial judgment on the pleadings as to the Wetumka Project lands and dismissed those claims. Docket No. 50. The only claims remaining are the trust accounting claims. Plaintiff still seeks a full and complete accounting of its trust funds and assets.