Mealey's (January 11, 2018, 9:21 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A challenge by three California residents to the United States’ taking of 1,400 acres into trust for an Indian tribe is not suitable for mediation or settlement because the dispute involves questions of law for which the parties are in direct conflict, the parties say in a Jan. 10 stipulation rejecting a federal court’s mediation order (Lewis P. Geyser, et al. v. United States of America, et al., No. 2:17-cv-07315, C. D. Calif.)....