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"Court: Start poring through 50 years of records or appeal."

"Court: Start poring through 50 years of records or appeal." The Deseret News today contains an article that begins, "A federal appellate court ruling may send Utah officials to the U.S. Supreme Court to dispute the mandate they must cull through decades worth of records to show how Navajo trust funds were spent. Or, accountants could just roll up their sleeves, dust off the hundreds of boxes and embrace the 'major undertaking' ordered Wednesday by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. At issue is expenditures from the estimated $150 million fund derived from gas and oil exploration on Navajo land in Utah dating back to the 1950s, when money first started funneling into the account."

And Pamela Manson of The Salt Lake Tribune reports that "Appeals court says state must account for Navajo oil money."

You can access yesterday's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit -- which applies the U.S. Supreme Court's recent "virtual representation" ruling in Taylor v. Sturgell -- at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).