Bonnichsen v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

JELDERKS, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this action seeking judicial review of a final agency decision that awarded the remains of the “Kennewick Man” to a coalition of Indian tribes and denied the Plaintiffs’ request to study those remains. Plaintiffs assert other claims based upon alleged statutory violations.

Plaintiffs seek to vacate the administrative decision which was made after an earlier decision was remanded to the agency for further proceedings. For the reasons set out below, I set aside the decision awarding the remains to the Tribal Claimants,…