Claims Court Says Summary Judgment Is Inappropriate In Tribal Trust Dispute

(August 4, 2023, 11:46 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — After determining that several issues raised in summary judgment cross-motions have already been decided, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge denied the remainder of the motions filed by a consortium of federally recognized Indian tribes and the United States on the tribes’ claims that the government breached its fiduciary duty as administrator of a trust fund established for the tribes’ benefit after a boarding school for Native American children in Phoenix was sold....