Mealey's (May 12, 2017, 11:33 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The “holdover” Nooksack Indian Tribal Council cannot sue the U.S. government to force it to provide federal funding because the government’s decision last year not to recognize the council due to lack of a quorum strips it of the authority to file suit, a Washington federal judge held May 11 in dismissing the council’s complaint (The Nooksack Indian Tribe v. Ryan K. Zinke, et al., No. 17-0219, W.D. Wash., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55459)....