Federal Circuit Orders Dismissal Of Tribe’s Suit Over Withdrawn Grant Money

Mealey's (September 13, 2017, 1:29 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Indian tribes cannot challenge a reduction in their federal housing block grant funding in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims because the statute authorizing the funding — the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) — is not money mandating, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found Sept. 12 (Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, et al. v. United States, No. 16-2196, Fed. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 17562)....