April 15, 2019
A California landowner has said a federal court still has jurisdiction over her suit challenging a tribe's bid to have its land taken into trust, saying the U.S. Department of the Interior's move to end the suit was "an attempt to short circuit the judicial review process."
April 03, 2019
The U.S. Department of the Interior urged a federal judge to toss a suit over a California tribe's bid to have its land taken into trust, saying a DOI official's decision to pull back a ruling in favor of the tribe meant there was no final agency action to challenge in court.
February 14, 2019
The Bureau of Indian Affairs' approval of a tribe's bid to have about 1,400 acres of Santa Barbara County land taken into trust for it must be vacated, a California federal judge has ruled, because the agency official who approved the decision lacked the authority to do so.
July 09, 2018
California agricultural landowners fighting a final decision to take about 1,400 acres of Santa Barbara County land into trust for a tribe and the federal government have both urged a federal court to give then a quick win in the landowners' suit.