United States Court o f Appeals 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 
September Term, 2003 
96~~01285 
NO. 03-5314 
Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al., 
Appellees 
V. 
Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior, et al., 
Appellants 
Filed On: April 21, 2004 p3175481 
BEFORE: Henderson, Randolph, and Tatel, 
Circuit Judges 
O R D E R 
Upon consideration of the motion for reconsideration of the court’s stay order filed 
January 28,2004, it is 
ORDERED that the motion be denied. As evidenced by our citations to Washinuton 
Metropolitan Area Transit Commission v. Holidav Tours. Inc., 559 F.2d 841, 843 (D.C. Cir. 
1977), and D.C. Circuit Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures 33 (2002) in the stay 
order, we determined that a stay should be granted under the traditional four-factor analysis 
and that the potential harm to the appellees is outweighed by the other factors in the analysis. 
This determination is not inconsistent with prior judicial statements concerning delay-related 
harm to the appellees, as the harm to the appellees is only one of the factors to be considered 
in the stay analysis, and the other factors - including the effects of the November 2003 
Appropriations Act on the appellants - outweigh it in this case. Nor is the stay overbroad, as 
the appellants established their entitlement to a stay of the institutional reform provisions, and 
the stay does not prohibit the appellants from conducting the historical accounting activities that 
have been funded by Congress. 
FOR THE COURT: 
Mark J. Langer, Clerk 
Per Curiam 
BY: United States Court of Appeals 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 
September Term, 2003 NO. 03-5314 
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