Tribe’s Trust Land In Iowa Eligible For Gaming, 8th Circuit Says In Affirming

Mealey's (August 31, 2021, 12:58 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A statute that restores federal recognition to a Native American tribe and limits the tribe’s reservation location to two counties in Nebraska does not preclude gaming on a parcel of land in a different county that the tribe seeks to have taken into trust so it can open a gambling operation there, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Aug. 30 in affirming a trial court’s findings....