A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Interior Department
must account for century-old land royalties owed to American Indians,
reversing a lower court's ruling that the task is impossible.
A 2008 decision by U.S. District Judge James Robertson said Interior
had unreasonably delayed an accounting but added that the complicated
task was ultimately impossible. He later ruled the Indian plaintiffs
are entitled to $455 million, a fraction of the $47 billion or more
they have said they are owed.
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