Government Drops Appeal Of Ruling For Cape Cod Tribe In Trust Land Row

Mealey's (February 23, 2021, 4:26 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The question of whether the federal government can take land into trust for a Massachusetts Indian tribe is back in the hands of the federal government after it dropped its appeal on Feb. 19 of a District of Columbia federal judge’s ruling remanding the dispute to the Department of the Interior (DOI) for a “thorough reconsideration and re-evaluation of the evidence.”...