Mealey's (January 19, 2023, 12:30 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government’s failure to act nine years ago on the Navajo Nation’s request for a large funding increase for judicial services on the reservation has come back to haunt it, with the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that federal Indian self-determination regulations bar the Department of the Interior (DOI) from declining future funding requests....