Residents’ Suit Against Tribe’s Land Acquisition Mooted When Approvals Yanked

Mealey's (June 6, 2019, 1:30 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 3 dismissed an appeal at the request of the federal government after the Department of the Interior (DOI) vacated decisions to take 1,400 acres into trust for a California Indian tribe, mooting a challenge to the trust rulings by three California residents (Lewis P. Geyser, et al. v. United States, et al., No. 18-56288, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 16722)....