Who are the parties in Cobell v. Salazar?
The plaintiffs are American Indian individuals Elouise Pepion Cobell, Penny Cleghorn, Thomas Maulson and James Louis Larose, collectively known as the Named Plaintiffs, and members of the two classes of individual Indians named in the Agreement. There are approximately 500,000 members in the two classes. The defendants are Kenneth Salazar, Secretary of the Interior; Larry Echohawk, Assistant Secretary of the Interior – Indian Affairs; and, H. Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury.
