D.C. Circuit Denies Rehearing For Freedmen Suit Seeking Accounting

Mealey's (March 20, 2018, 1:59 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 16 declined to reconsider its finding 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 (Leatrice Tanner-Brown, et al. v. Ryan Zinke, et al., No. 16-5040, D.C. Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6769, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6784)....