Mealey's (April 7, 2017, 1:50 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge erred in awarding the U.S. government summary judgment in a suit by the Navajo Nation to enforce a proposed funding agreement because the government was bound by an employee’s acceptance of the tribe’s hand-delivered proposal and had sufficient time to respond to the proposal, despite a temporary government shutdown, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held April 4 (Navajo Nation v. Department of the Interior, et al., No. 16-5117, D.C. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 5759)....