Charlene Ackley (and a Class of Other Individuals Similarlysituated, Totalling 90), Plaintiffs, v. the United States, Defendant-appellant,andthe Hoopa Valley Tribe of Indians, Defendant-appellee, 50 F.3d 21 (Fed. Cir. 1995)

The United States appeals a judgment of the United States Court of Federal Claims, No. 460-78 (July 29, 1993), ordering the United States to pay the appellees certain sums plus interest. The appellees are 43 American Indians who filed suit along with 47 others in the United States Court of Claims on October 20, 1978, and were found to qualify as "Indians of the Reservation" or were stipulated to so qualify. The claims of the remaining 47 original plaintiffs were dismissed with prejudice.

We affirm on the basis of Short v. United States, No. 93-5193 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 14, 1995).

MICHEL, Circuit Judge, dissenting.

Adhering to my view that no statute authorizes an award of prejudgment interest in this case, Short v. United States, No. 93-5193, slip op. at 23-25 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 14, 1995) (Michel, J., dissenting), I respectfully dissent.