( August 3, 2023, 10:28 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal court lacks personal jurisdiction over Rhode Island because the Narragansett Indian Tribe only alleged that one of the state’s attorneys entered D.C. to engage with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) over disputes that arose from attempts to preserve an archaeological site that was threatened by an interstate construction project, a D.C. federal judge found in granting Rhode Island’s motion to dismiss under the government contacts exception to D.C.’s long-arm statute....