Expanded Discovery Needed For Cherokee Nation Trust Claims, Magistrate Judge Rules

Mealey's (April 2, 2021, 12:38 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal magistrate judge on March 31 denied a request by the U.S. government to block discovery by the Cherokee Nation in its quest for an accounting of billions of dollars in assets held in trust by the government, saying the tribe is entitled to the information it seeks and calling the sought-after accounting “long overdue.”...