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Show DAILY HERALD Lawsuit Continued from A 1 A Lee Newspaper Established in 1873 Customer Service Newsroom 375-510- 3 80144-254- 0 Toll free FAX www.heraldextra.com Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send mail to: P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 84603-071- News Editors Editor Exeartiv Rose Am rwnghtheraldertra.com aroseheraldertra.com 344 2530 City Editor Logan Moryneux Sports Editor Darnell Dickson Business Editor Grace Leong Life ft Style Editor Elyssa Editorial Page Editor Jim President ft Publisher Craig Circulation Director Stephen Kelsey skelseyheraldextra.com fjeorgeiGretser ggretserheraldextra.com Chief Financial Officer Mark Heintzelman mheirrtzelmanheraldextra.com Production Larry Hatch IT. 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Thursday Only t Sunday Only Thur, Sun & Holidays 'Holiday delivery includes delivery the weeks of Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Pioneer Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. never-endin- mrobertsheraldextra.com Roberts At other times, NEWS TIPS: On nights and weekends, call 344-255contact an editor above. CORRECTIONS: The Herald corrects errors of fact appearing in its news and opinion columns. If you have a correction, call According to Dorgan's office, Congress already has set aside $340 million for the department to account for the trust money a process that U.S. District Judge James Robertson deemed inadequate this year. An 1887 law allotted land to individual Indians and provided that the government would hold the land and any revenue from it in trust for them and for their survivors. Beginning in the 1970s, several reports criticized the government's management. Finally, in 1994, Congress demanded that the department fulfill an obligation to account for money received and distributed. A year later, when account statements still had not been reconciled, Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe from Montana, joined with the Boulder, Colo dispute. Sen. Byron Dorgan, based Native American Rights Fund and and Arizona's John McCain, the likely Republican others in suing. The case dragged on for several years, number. presidential nominee, tried to do that three "It is time to bring this matter to a close with occasional fireworks. years ago when McCain led the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, but they were U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth with a decision of one kind or another," not able to get the two sides to agree on ordered the department to disconnect its he said. -- btregaskisheraldextra.com Walker dollar amount." ., lhatchheraldextra.com 2008 computers from the Internet for failing to provide adequate security for the Indians' trust records. He also held President Bush's interior secretary, Gale Norton, and her Clinton-er- a predecessor, Bruce Babbitt, in contempt for their handling of the trust fund Lamberth later was removed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which said he had lost his objectivity. The government had asked that Lamberth be replaced after the judge lambasted the department, writing in a decision that it "is a dinosaur the morally n and culturally oblivious of a disgracefully racist and imperialist government that should have been buried a century ago." Robertson, who took over, has made it clear he wants to be the last judge on the case. In his January decision that the department unreasonably had delayed its accounting, he quoted Charles Dickens' g "Bleak House," which chronicles a legal suit. Using passages from that novel, he noted that the "suit has, in course of time, become so complicated" that "no two lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises." Robertson later set this week's trial, with the aim of coming up with a final an amount. , "Congress could step in at any point and decide that enough is enough and just pass a bill to settle the lawsuit at a dollar amount that Congress determines is reasonable," said Justin Kitsch, spokesman for Dorgan, the committee's current chairman. "Senators Dorgan and McCain were trying to do this before because it was clear that the federal government is liable, it is just not clear about the exact class-actio- Wright Randy Metro Editor uncertain if even a penny will come their way. The Indians' 1996 suit claims they were swindled out of more than $ 100 billion in oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties overseen by the Interior Department since 1887. The Indians rejected a government offer of less than $7 billion last year. Now, they say they are owed $58 billion a f igure they say is the government's savings from money that should have gone promptly into individual Indian accounts. n suit covers about The 500,000 Indians and their heirs. The lead plaintiff, Elouise Cobell, said the government has "deep pockets because they have taxpayer money and they can drag it out forever." The Indians' lawyers intend to argue that the money should be paid directly and does not require action by Congress. The Interior Department, which declined comment on the case, has argued in filings with the court that the judge lacks jurisdiction to award any money. Congress could try again to settle the Monday, June MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS All contents Copyright 2008, Dally Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited without written permission. Teens for research and an author of the study. "Drivers with Continued from A 1 phones to their ears aren't hard to spot, but it's nearly imposand parental influence arrjust sible for poljce officers to see as important as new laws. handsfree devices or correctly The Insurance Institute for guess how old drivers are." Motor vehicle crashes are the Highway Safety studied North 'Carolina's law, enacted in 2006, leading cause of death for teen- which fines motorists under agers, according to the governage 18 who are caught using a ment's auto safety agency, and cell phone. teenagers are involved in three Researchers who watched as times as many fatal crashes as high school students left school all other drivers. found that teenage drivers The institute says 17 states used their cell phones at about and the District of Columbia the same rate both before and have cell phone restrictions in after the law took effect. In licensing requirements for teen South Carolina, which does not drivers. The National Transhave a similar restriction, cell portation Safety Board in 2003 phone use by teenage drivers was about the same for both periods studied. A separate phone survey of North Carolina parents and teenagers showed widespread support for their state's law, but more than three in five reported that enforcement was rare or nonexistent. "Cell phone bans for teen drivers are difficult to enforce," said Anne McCartt, the. institute's senior vice president . was critical. SO, too, parental involvement. Added Barbara Harsha, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association: "What these kinds of laws do is send the message to the parent more than anything else." In the North Carolina study, researchers found that 11 percent of teenage drivers observed departing 25 high schools during the two months before the ban took effect were using cell phones. About five months after the ban took effect, during the spring of recommended that states limit or bar young drivers from using cell phones, leading many states to act. Harrison, who serves with Students Against Destructive Decisions, an advocacy group focused on highway safety issues, said few of her friends know about West Virginia's law banning cell phone use by novice drivers. Bill Bronrott, a Maryland state delegate who sponsored a successful bill in 2005 prohibiting rookie drivers under 18 from using cell phones, except to make 911 emergency calls, said a "combination of education and enforcement" 2007, nearly 12 percent were observed using phones. QimnillH,flSi Dim AM k J. t A. .ij4ijijij(IHiVilUlliUl , mmmmmm w&rsj?m I 1 I A itiMitite 1 mums 09. a Best Open Fit j fft If V J,ci 3 I I 1 -- f 4 -- IEMEN IV INTUrS m intuis.' 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