(September 21, 2017, 9:09 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress properly enacted a statute barring any lawsuit relating to a Native American casino property under its constitutional power to define the jurisdiction of federal courts, the U.S. government argues in its Sept. 11 response brief on the merits of a landowner’s claims to the U.S. Supreme Court (David Patchak v. Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, et al., No. 16-498, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3425)....