Justices Decline To Review Land-Into-Trust Deal For Cherokee Band

Mealey's (June 22, 2020, 10:45 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decision by the Department of the Interior (DOI) to take 76 acres of land into trust for a band of the Cherokee Nation will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 22 denied certiorari in the nation’s challenge to the ruling, which was upheld by the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (The Cherokee Nation v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 19-937, U.S. Sup.)....