Tribe fights Yucca in court

A federal judge made no immediate decision Wednesday on whether an American Indian tribe's 19th century claim to vast stretches of Western land should stop government plans for a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

U.S. District Court Judge Philip Pro didn't indicate when he would rule on the Western Shoshone National Council's request for a preliminary injunction based on the Ruby Valley Treaty of 1863. After an hour of oral arguments, Pro said he'd make a decision "as soon as possible."

Lawyer Robert Hager of Reno, representing the tribe, focused his plea for an immediate halt to the $58 billion project on Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman's disclosure last month that workers might have falsified data during site suitability studies.

"Misrepresentations were made. Lies were made," Hager said, insisting that falsified data was used to gain presidential and congressional approval for the project. "At some point, it's got to stop, your honor, and it's got to stop with the courts."

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There is no "liberty and justice for all" when it comes to the original inhabitants of this land.