D.C. Circuit Upholds Rulings For Government In Challenges To Tribe’s Casino

Mealey's (January 16, 2018, 1:15 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A unanimous panel of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 12 affirmed a federal district court’s dismissal of all challenges to the U.S. government’s approval of an Indian tribe’s casino-resort project in California, finding as the trial court did that the government properly approved the tribe’s plans under several federal laws (Stand Up For California!, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Interior, et al., Nos. 16-5327, 16-5328, D.C. Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 779)....