Tribes’ 2 Suits Over HUD Funding Create Jurisdiction Split, Petitioners Argue

(April 25, 2018, 2:31 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a second petition for a writ of certiorari over the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s recoupment of alleged overpayments in housing funding to Indian tribes, tribal petitioners on April 5 urge the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate a jurisdictional gap created by the two cases in the dispute and the resulting conflict among federal circuit courts (Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, et al. v. United States, No. 17-1419, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1524)....