March 22, 2022
A Michigan tribe asked the D.C. Circuit to reconsider its decision overturning a lower court's ruling on how the U.S. Department of Interior must handle land trusts, after a three-judge panel found that it has the authority to review if land purchases qualify to be taken into trust.
February 04, 2022
A split D.C. Circuit panel on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that the U.S. Department of the Interior wrongly refused to take Michigan land into trust for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, saying the DOI had the authority to review the land purchase and decide it didn't qualify to be taken into trust.