KENTUCKY
v.
INDIANA ET AL.

U.S. | 1979-05-14
No. 81
441 U.S. 941 Supreme Court of the United States (1979)

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The Court appointed a Special Master to manage proceedings, including evidence gathering and reporting, and to determine the allocation of expenses.


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The Court is issuing an order appointing a Special Master to oversee further proceedings in the case. This includes authority to manage pleadings, sum…

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Opinion of the Court

It is ordered that the Honorable Robert Yan Pelt, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, be appointed Special Master in this case with authority to fix the time and conditions for the filing of additional pleadings and to direct subsequent proceedings, and with authority to summon witnesses, issue subpoenas, and take such evidence as may be introduced and such as he may deem necessary to call for. The Master is directed to submit such reports as he may deem appropriate.

The Master shall be allowed his actual expenses. The allowances to him, the compensation paid to his technical, stenographic and clerical assistants, the cost of printing his report, and all other proper expenses shall be charged against and be borne by the parties in such proportion as the Court may hereafter direct.

It is further ordered that if the position of the Special Master in this case becomes vacant during a recess of the Court, The Chief Justice shall have authority to make a new designation which shall have the same effect as if originally made by the Court.

The motion of Public Service Company of Indiana, Inc., for leave to intervene is referred to the Special Master. [For earlier order herein, see 440 U. S. 902.]


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