Mealey's (April 3, 2018, 10:21 AM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — Federal government defendants in a challenge by two California Indian tribes to the construction of a highway bypass were awarded summary judgment in federal court March 30 on the tribes’ claims that the United States failed to engage in a government-to-government consultation process with the tribes under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) for construction of the bypass (Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California, et al. v. United States Department of Transportation, et al., No. 15-cv-04987, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34923)....