10th Circuit Reverses, Says U.S. Can Take Land Into Trust For Cherokee Band

(October 11, 2019, 8:56 AM EDT) -- DENVER — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated an injunction Sept. 5 barring the Department of the Interior (DOI) from taking 76 acres of land within the historic Cherokee Nation reservation into trust for a Cherokee band after finding that the DOI properly approved the band’s trust application (The Cherokee Nation v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 17-7042, 10th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26780)....