( April 7, 2026, 7:46 AM EDT) -- PHOENIX — A split panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that a lower court was wrong to deny an Indigenous church and its members’ motion for attorney fees in its case against the U.S. attorney general, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection after the parties filed a notice of settlement, finding that the lower court had retained jurisdiction to resolve attorney fees....