Tribe Seeks Emergency TRO To Halt Interior’s Plan To Eliminate Reservation

Mealey's (April 1, 2020, 1:20 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Cape Cod, Mass., on March 30 asked a District of Columbia federal court to issue an emergency restraining order (TRO) to keep the Department of the Interior (DOI) from taking away the tribe’s 321-acre reservation, which the agency has ordered the Bureau of Indian Affair (BIA) to do based on a recent appeals court ruling in a different case (Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v. Ryan Zinke, et al., No. 18-2242, D. D.C.)....