( October 12, 2026, 8:07 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA) properly dismissed for lack of standing an appeal by an oil and gas exploration and production company challenging a decades-old Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) lease assignment, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), BIA and the secretary of the Interior argue in an appellee brief asking the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm a trial court’s summary judgment ruling in their favor....