Government, Tribe Respond After Judge Slams Interior For Silence On New Guidance

Mealey's (May 5, 2020, 12:59 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A change in the way the Department of the Interior (DOI) determines whether an Indian tribe’s land is eligible to be taken into trust by the government has no effect on the DOI’s recent decision to take away the reservation of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and revoke the tribe’s gaming rights, the agency says in a May 4 supplemental brief filed by order of a District of Columbia federal judge (Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 18-2242, D. D.C.)....