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Your Honor, Part of the complaint in this action is a FOIA request. Mr. Obama, defendant in this case, via US attorney’s office sought dismissal of a FOIA request due to the fact that the refusal of information request by the Social Security administration was not final. Your Honor initially agreed, stating that the response from the Social Security administration was not final. Until now Taitz could not obtain a response from SSN, stating that it is a final decision. Yesterday Taitz received a letter from Jonathan R. Cantor, Executive Director of Office of Privacy and Disclosure of the Social...

Filegate, Consolidated Cases, DISMISSED While this Court seriously entertained the plaintiffs' allegations that their privacy had been violated--and indeed it was, even if not in the sense contemplated by the Privacy Act--after ample opportunity, they have not produced any evidence of the far-reaching conspiracy that sought to use intimate details from FBI files for political assassinations that they alleged. The only thing that they have demonstrated is that this unfortunate episode--about which they do have cause to complain--was exactly what the defendants claimed: a bureaucratic snafu. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth USDC District of Columbia

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by American Indians to step into a decade-old lawsuit accusing the government of mismanaging more than $100 billion in oil, gas, timber and other royalties from their lands. The justices declined to disturb an appeals court ruling that removed U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth from the case. The appeals court said Lamberth, who held successive Democratic and Republican Interior Department secretaries in contempt of court, had lost his objectivity in the case.

WASHINGTON - Federal officials are investigating how National Archives documents of interest to Indians suing the Interior Department were found discarded in a trash bin and a wastebasket. The discovery came to light on Sept. 1, when Archives staff noticed federal records in one of the trash bins behind the National Archives Building near the Capitol. They notified the Archives' inspector general, Paul Brachfeld, whose staff recovered the documents. They found at least a portion of the documents were Bureau of Indian Affairs records dating to the 1950s, according to Jason Baron of the Archives' Office of General Counsel, in...

Forty and counting. That is the number of former and current government employees facing possible contempt charges in the contentious case over the government's handling of Native American trust funds. The scope of the controversy is unprecedented. The Interior Department, home to a large portion of the accused employees, is an agency under siege. Interior officials are saying that Cobell v. Norton is hampering their ability to fix the trust and is taking a toll on the work force. Deputy Secretary J. Steven Griles recently told Congress that some employees have refused to work on the trust anymore -- and...