January 05, 2021
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday revived the Shawnee Tribe's bid to increase its share of billions of dollars in coronavirus relief funds, saying the U.S. Department of the Treasury likely underpaid the Shawnee and some other tribes by basing funding on population data that fell far short of their true membership numbers.
December 23, 2020
A D.C. Circuit panel has declined to hold $12 million in coronavirus relief funds for the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma as it continues to pursue a larger share on appeal, saying the tribe made a procedural error in seeking an emergency stay this month.
December 14, 2020
The Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma on Friday filed an emergency motion urging the D.C. Circuit to bar the U.S. Department of the Treasury from disbursing certain remaining CARES Act funds while it fights for a larger share on appeal, shortly after another tribe argued all remaining funds should be released now.
December 04, 2020
The D.C. Circuit wasn't buying the U.S. Department of Treasury's line that the appellate court has no power to weigh in on how the agency decided to dole out virus relief funds to the Shawnee Tribe at oral arguments Friday morning.
October 27, 2020
The U.S. Department of the Treasury urged the D.C. Circuit to affirm a lower court's finding that the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is not owed a larger share of federal virus relief funds, doubling down on its stance that agency funding allocations are not reviewable.
October 20, 2020
Two Native American tribes are backing up the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma before the D.C. Circuit, saying a lower court should not have shied away from reviewing the U.S. Treasury Department's faulty method for allocating $8 billion in coronavirus relief funding this spring.
October 13, 2020
The Shawnee Tribe has urged the D.C. Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling dismissing the tribe's bid for more coronavirus relief funding under the CARES Act, saying the Treasury Department didn't have the discretion to base the tribe's funding on data showing its population as zero.