COBELL v. NORTON

No. CIV.A.96-1285-RCL.

223 F.Supp.2d 156 (2002)

Elouise Pepion COBELL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Gale A. NORTON, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 30, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith M. Harper, Lorna K. Babby, Dennis Marc Gingold, Elliot H. Levitas, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Robert D. Luskin, Patton Boggs LLP, Tom C. Clark, Brian L. Ferrell, Andrew M. Eschen, U.S. Department of Justice Land & Natural Resources Division, Charles Walter Findlay, III, Sarah D. Himmelhoch, U.S. Department of Justice Land & Natural Resources Division, Sandra Marguerite Schraibman, U.S. Department of Justice Federal Programs Branch, Edith R. Blackwell, Washington, DC, John Charles Cruden, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice Land & Natural Resources Division, Annandale, VA, Lewis Steven Wiener, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Mark E. Nagle, Robert Craig Lawrence, Scott Sutherland Harris, U.S. Attorney's Office, J. Christopher Kohn, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, Jo-Ann Shyloski, Barry Weiner, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources, Henry A. Azar, Jr., U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC, Terry M. Petrie, U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources, Denver, CO, Seth Brandon Shapiro, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Jonathan Brien New, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Jennifer R. Rivera, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Sandra Peavler Spooner, David J. Gottesman, Peter Blaze Miller, Cynthia L. Alexander, Mathew J. Fader, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, John Stemplewicz, Civil Division, Amalia D. Kessler, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, John S. Most, U.S. Department of Justice Trial Attorney, General Litigation Secti Environment and Natural Resources, Phillip Martin Seligman, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Terry M. Petrie, John J. Siemietkowski, U.S. Department of Justice Commercial Litigation Branch, Tracey Lyle Hilmer, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Dodge Wells, U.S. Department of Justice, Elizabeth Wallace Fleming, Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Lawrence H. Wechsler, Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler, Donald Michael Barnes, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Daid Booth Beers, Shea & Gardner, Washington, DC, William Aaron Dobrovir, Warrenton, VA, Pamela J. Marple, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Washington, DC, Timothy Patrick Garren, U.S. Department of JusticeCivil Rights Division, Erik Lloyd Kitchen, Steptoe & Johnson, L.L.P., Martha Purcell Rogers, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Michael R. Bromwich, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Amy Berman Jackson, Trout & Richards, P.L.L.C., Roger Eric Zuckerman, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, Kathleen Elizabeth Voelker, Stephen M. Byers, Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Leslie B. Kiernan, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, L. Barrett Boss, Asbill, Moffitt & Boss, Chartered, Sydney Jean Hoffmann, John Francis Hundley, The Law Offices of Plato Cacheris, Barbara Ann Van Gelder, Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP, William Holt Briggs, Jr., Laura C. Zimmitti, Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP, Thomas Edward Wilson, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, L.L.P., Mary Lou Soller, Miller & Chevalier, Chartered, Jeffrey David Robinson, Malissa Heitmann McNiven, Dwight Phillip Bostwick, Baach, Robinson & Lewis, Washington, DC, Larry Allen Nathans, Robert W. Biddle, Bennett & Nathans, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, John Kenneth Zwerling, Lisa Bondareff Kemler, Zwerling & Kemler, P.C., Alexandria, VA, Russell David Duncan, Lisa Ann Freiman Fishberg, Coburn & Schertler, E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, L.L.P., David Sidney Krakoff, Alessio D. Evangelista, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Michael D. Goodstein, Resolution Law Group, PC, Washington, DC, Bradley Stuart Lui, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, McLean, VA, Stanley M. Brand, Andrew Dewald Herman, Brand & Frulla, P.C., Marshall L. Matz, Olsson, Frank & Weeda, P.C., Jefferson McClure Gray, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, Emily M. Yinger, Hogan & Hartson, McLean, VA, William Leonard Gardner, Brian Michael Privor, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Alan Lee Balaran, Richard Lee Cys, Davis Wright Tremaine, Jonathan K. Tycko, Tycko Zavareei, LLP, Washington, DC, for Non Parties.

Christopher B. Mead, London & Mead, Washington, DC, Nathaniel Davis Owens, Sr., Anniston, AL, Jill Elise Grant, Washington, DC, Neil James Ruther, Towson, MD, for Movants.

Albert Lee Bynum, Gadsden, AL, Pro se.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LAMBERTH, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on four of defendants' motions for adjustment or reconsideration of requests by the Court Monitor (now Special Master-Monitor) for compensation.1 Because the motions and supporting memoranda are nearly identical in their factual statements and arguments, the Court will address all four in this Memorandum and Order.

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