September 09, 2016
A federal court's recent rejection of a challenge to a casino the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians plans to build in Northern California endorsed both the U.S. Department of the Interior's approach to taking land into trust for gambling projects and a broad interpretation of a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2009. Here are four key takeaways from the DOI and North Fork tribe's win.
September 06, 2016
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday tossed a suit challenging the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians' proposed casino, saying a rival gaming tribe and local community groups hadn't shown the federal government's decisions backing the Northern California project were unreasonable.
August 22, 2016
The North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians and the federal government told a D.C. federal court on Friday that the tribe's recently received green light to conduct gaming has mooted some claims in a lawsuit challenging U.S. Department of the Interior decisions that allowed the casino plans to move forward.
April 23, 2015
The U.S. Department of the Interior urged a D.C. federal judge Wednesday to find valid two Bureau of Indian Affairs decisions allowing the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians' casino project in California to proceed, arguing that a rival tribe hadn't shown the government couldn't take land for the project into trust.
March 17, 2015
The Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians asked a D.C. federal judge Monday to set aside two Bureau of Indian Affairs decisions allowing another tribe's casino project to go forward, arguing that the rival tribe's gaming agreement with the state was never made valid.
August 02, 2013
The U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday asked a Washington federal judge to stay an effort to block it from purchasing land in California for a Native American casino and hotel and remand a previous approval of the plan so it can comply with notice requirements.
January 30, 2013
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday refused to block the U.S. Department of the Interior from purchasing land in California and allowing a group of Native Americans to build a casino and hotel on the property, saying the surrounding community's environmental, moral and other qualms can't prevent the transaction.