Mealey's (April 13, 2017, 12:18 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Washington federal judge on April 11 allowed 271 Native Americans to intervene as defendants in a case brought by their tribe’s council against the Department of the Interior (DOI) over the government’s refusal to acknowledge any action taken by the council in the past year due to lack of a quorum (The Nooksack Indian Tribe v. Ryan K. Zinke, et al., No. 17-0219, W.D. Wash., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55459)....