Peoria Tribe, 390 U.S. at 472, 88 S.Ct. at 1139 (quoting United States v. Blackfeather, 155 U.S. 180, 193, 15 S.Ct. 64, 69, 39 L.Ed. 114 (1894)). Rogers v. United States, 877 F.2d 1550 (Fed. Cir. 1989), upon which the government relies for much of its argument against an award of prejudgment interest, is thus a far different case. The funds at issue in Rogers were disbursed from an Indian Claims Commission judgment fund created to compensate the claimants for a taking.
For example, in Rogers v. United States, the BIA sent "letters to . . . newspapers, television stations, and radio stations . . . enclosing a public service announcement . . . Letters were also sent to 97 different organized Indian groups in 24 states and the District of Columbia." 877 F.2d 1550, 1553-54 (9th Cir. 1989). The evidence in Rogers was fresher, the suit having been first brought in the early 1980's.
However, the Government cites no affirmative evidence in support of its argument, and speculation does not demonstrate reversible error. See Rogers v. United States , 877 F.2d 1550, 1557 (Fed. Cir. 1989) (holding that speculation cannot demonstrate an abuse of discretion). As a result, the CIT's lone recitation of the "slightly more" and "clearly" standards, when viewed against the remainder of the CIT's analysis, did not constitute an abuse of its discretion.