( May 1, 2024, 11:54 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In affirming a judgment by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that members of the Cherokee Nation currently incarcerated in the Oklahoma state prison system are not entitled to compensation from the United States for unlawful imprisonment because the two 19th-century treaties they cite do not create such a right in the Claims Court....