Legal Opinion
Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided March 5, 1999No. 92-403LPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARKINS, Senior Judge.
The Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation (plaintiff /Tribe) in a complaint filed June 15, 1992, asserts the United States breached its fiduciary duty to the Tribe by failing to properly manage, cut, and market its timber resources during the period March 9, 1979, to the date of the complaint. The complaint seeks compensation for damages incurred by the Tribe due to mismanagement of its timber properties. Supervision of the reservation was exercised by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Department of Interior. Management of the timber properties primarily was…
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