Judge Dismisses Virginia Tribe Members’ Suit Over Lack Of Federal Funds

Mealey's (June 5, 2023, 1:15 PM EDT) -- LYNCHBURG, Va. — Tribal members’ claims over a federal funding dispute with their tribe’s leaders cannot be decided in federal court because they “rest upon numerous, intertwined nonjusticiable issues all beyond the Court’s subject matter jurisdiction and inherently reserved for resolution” only by the tribe, a federal judge in Virginia held in dismissing the members’ suit....