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Nearly a year after Congress passed a coronavirus relief bill, some Native American tribes remain in legal limbo over what’s been distributed.
The issue didn’t become any clearer for three tribes that argued during a federal court hearing last week that they were shortchanged under the formula used to dole out a portion of the $8 billion set aside for tribes.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta set deadlines to move the case forward after attorneys for both sides said they couldn’t reach an agreement on interim payments while the U.S. Treasury Department comes up with a new method to distribute the remaining $533 million.
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Tribes in legal limbo over federal virus relief funding
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