September 17, 2015
A Washington, D.C., federal court on Thursday denied the U.S. Department of the Interior's bid to dismiss a suit launched by 10 Native American tribes, finding that it has jurisdiction to hear a dispute alleging the agency neglected accounting rules for the tribes' trusts.
July 15, 2015
The Department of the Interior pushed a Washington, D.C., federal judge at a Wednesday hearing to toss a suit from 10 Native American tribes, claiming that the suit alleging the agency neglected accounting rules for the tribes' trusts missed its extended filing deadline by seven years.