(March 9, 2017, 11:09 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decision by the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirming approval of a Washington state Indian tribe’s request to take land for a casino into trust does not need to be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court because the appeals court properly deferred to the federal government’s interpretation of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) when it approved the trust request, the tribe argues in a March 1 response brief (Citizens Against Reservation Shopping, et al. v. K. Jack Haugrud, Acting Secretary of the Interior, et al., No. 16-572, U.S. Sup.; 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 719)....