In the Supreme Court of the United States, Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, petitioner, v. David Patchak, et al., respondents ; Ken L. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al., petitioners, v. David Patchak, et al., responsents [electronic resource] : on writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit : brief of the National Congress of American Indians and Native American Finance Officers Association as amici curiae in support of petitioner / Vernle C. Durocher Jr., counsel of record, [and 3 others], counsel for amici curiae National Congress of American Indians and Native American Finance Officers Association.

At issue is, after the federal government took certain land in trust for an Indian tribe, which planned to build a casino on the land, could a neighbor sue the government to challenge the land acquisition?