High Court Review Of Tribes’ Land-Into-Trust Dispute Not Needed, Government Says

Mealey's (May 4, 2020, 1:06 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should rebuff the Cherokee Nation’s challenge to a Department of the Interior (DOI) ruling and allow the agency to take 76 acres into trust for a Cherokee band, the DOI and federal officials tell the high court in a May 1 response brief (The Cherokee Nation v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 19-937, U.S. Sup.)....