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FORTHE DISTRICTOFCOLUMB~ACIRCU~ 
September Term, 2002 
Filed On: 
Gale A. Norton, as the Secretary of the Interior, et al., 
Appellants 
NO. 03-5063 
Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al., 
Appellees 
V. 
Joseph S. Kieffer, 111, Monitor and Alan Lee Balaran, 
Appellees 
Consolidated with 03-5084,03-5097 
ORDER 
It appearing that these consolidated cases present potential problems of 
duplicative briefing, it is 
ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that the parties submit, within thirty (30) 
days of the date of this order, proposed formats for the briefing of these cases. The 
parties are strongly urged to submit a joint proposal, and are reminded that the court 
looks with extreme disfavor on repetitious submissions and will, where appropriate, 
require a joint brief of aligned parties with total words not to exceed the standard 
allotment for a single brief. The parties are directed to provide detailed justifications for 
any request to file separate briefs or to exceed the standard word allotment. Requests 
to exceed the standard word allotment must specify the word allotment necessary for 
each issue. 
96CvO1285 
UNlTEb S m OF APPEALS 
FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMMA CWJIl’ 
CLERK I 
FOR THE COURT: 
TOTRL P .03