D.C. Circuit Rejects Tribal Contract Support Costs Claim re: Insurance Money

Here is the opinion in Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. Becerra.

Briefs:

Swinomish Brief

Tribal Amicus Brief

Federal Answer Brief

Swinomish Reply

Lower court materials here.

 

Swinomish Loses Contract Support Costs Dispute with Indian Health Service

Here are the materials in Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. Azar (D.D.C.):

1 Complaint

21-2 Swinomish MSJ

27 US Cross-Motion

29 Swinomish Reply

32 US Reply

36 DCT Order

An excerpt:

The question in this case is whether, when a tribe collects its own third-party revenue pursuant to 25 U.S.C. § 1641(d)(1), its expenditures of those funds on health care services are eligible for CSC funding from the IHS under the ISDEAA, id. §§ 5325, 5388.