March 08, 2023
A D.C. federal court granted an early win to the U.S. Department of the Interior, alongside intervenor casinos and Native American tribes, in a suit brought by a Michigan tribe over federal officials' refusal to take into trust Michigan land eyed for a new casino, finding that the gambling plans would not achieve the "social welfare" criteria for trust submissions.
January 23, 2023
The U.S. Department of the Interior, alongside intervenor casinos and Native American tribes in Michigan, have told a D.C. federal judge that federal officials were right to refuse to take into trust land purchased by the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and eyed for a casino.
January 03, 2023
A Michigan Native American tribe says it purchased Michigan land in efforts to boost members' well-being through tribal gaming revenue, telling the D.C. federal court that the U.S. Department of Interior wrongly denied the tribe's bid to take the land into trust.
November 29, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior and several intervenor tribes and casinos urged a D.C. federal court to rule in their favor and reject the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians' renewed summary judgment bid in a suit over Michigan land that the government refused to take into trust.
March 05, 2020
A D.C. federal judge has largely ruled in favor of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians on its claims that the U.S. Department of the Interior wrongly refused to take Michigan land into trust for the tribe, saying the DOI "overstepped its authority."
May 29, 2019
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians has urged a D.C. federal judge to favor its claim that the U.S. Department of the Interior wrongly refused to take Michigan land into trust for the tribe, arguing that the department overreached its authority by denying the tribe's right to govern itself.
April 24, 2019
A pair of Native American tribes and several casinos will be permitted to intervene in a suit over Michigan land that the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians says the government should've taken into trust for the tribe, a Washington, D.C., federal judge has decided.
August 31, 2018
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians has hit the federal government with a lawsuit saying the U.S. Department of the Interior shouldn't have refused to take various pieces of Michigan land into trust for the tribe.