( April 4, 2024, 12:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a group of Massachusetts residents who asked whether the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) decision to take into trust land owned by the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe was not arbitrary or capricious or not in accordance with the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)....