(November 11, 2016, 11:36 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 9 affirmed a federal judge’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the federal government in a suit filed by citizens and two towns challenging the government’s decision to place more than 13,000 acres of land in central New York into a trust for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York (Upstate Citizens for Equality, Inc., et al. v. United States of America, et al., Nos. 15-1688, 15-1726, 2nd Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 20192)....