Mealey's (June 1, 2021, 8:47 AM EDT) -- PHOENIX — The production of a signed self-determination contract by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) moots a California Indian tribe’s suit against the agency seeking the return of the approved contract to the tribe, and the tribe’s failure to allege that the BIA has a “pattern or practice” of not returning contracts defeats its bid to avoid mootness, an Arizona federal judge ruled May 27 in granting the government’s motion to dismiss....