Coeur D'Alene Tribe v. United States

OPINION

DAMICH, Judge:

Plaintiff Coeur d’Alene Tribe (“Plaintiff’ or “Tribe”) filed this case on December 29, 2006, seeking damages for the United States’ alleged mismanagement of the Tribe’s trust funds and resources. On the same day, Plaintiff filed a similar case in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (“District Court”). In that case, Plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment that the United States breached its fiduciary trust obligations to Plaintiff and an order for a full historical equitable accounting of Plaintiffs trust assets. There is no question that, absent…