D.C. Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Freedmen Suit Seeking Accounting

Mealey's (December 15, 2017, 12:26 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court correctly held that descendants of Indian slaves cannot seek an accounting from the U.S. government for oil and gas revenues that may have been due to them a century ago because they failed to show that they suffered an injury, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Dec. 12 in an unpublished per curiam decision (Leatrice Tanner-Brown, et al. v. Ryan Zinke, et al., No. 16-5040, D.C. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 25070)....