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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................. i TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ......................................................................................................... iii INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................1 PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND..................................................................................................2 ARGUMENT...................................................................................................................................4 I. THE UNITED STATES WAIVED ANY DEFENSE OF ESTOPPEL OR LACHES BY FAILING TO PLEAD EITHER DEFENSE IN A RESPONSIVE PLEADING AS REQUIRED BY RCFC RULE 8(C)....................4 A. B. The United States Failed to Plead the Defenses of Estoppel and Laches ..........................................................................................................4 The United States Has No Valid Basis for Injecting Its Unpled Defenses into this Case on the Eve of Trial .................................................5 1. 2. 3. II. The United States Should Not Be Permitted to Amend Its Pleadings to Assert Laches or Estoppel ...........................................5 The United States' Laches and Estoppel Defenses Implicate New Issues Not Previously Raised in this Case...............................7 The United States' Assertion of a Laches Defense in the 550 Case Cannot Import Laches into this Case ...............................8
THE UNITED STATES' UNCLEAN HANDS PREVENT IT FROM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE EQUITABLE DEFENSES OF LACHES AND ESTOPPEL ..................................................................................10 CONGRESS'S DETERMINATION IN THE APPROPRIATIONS ACTS THAT CLAIMS DO NOT ACCRUE UNTIL AN ACCOUNTING IS RENDERED BARS APPLICATION OF LACHES AND ESTOPPEL TO THIS CASE ...........................................................................................................12
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CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17 EXHIBITS Exhibit 1: Answer, Osage Nation v. United States (Fed. Cl. Nov. 1, 1999) (Case No. 99-550L) .......................................................................................................3 Exhibit 2: Answer to Third Amended Complaint, Osage Nation v. United States (Fed. Cl. Nov. 8, 2004) (Case No. 99-550L) ...............................................................13 Exhibit 3: Answer to Complaint in No. 00-169L, Osage Nation v. United States (Fed. Cl. July 7, 2000) (Case No. 00-169L) ................................................................28
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