The Supreme Court on Monday declined to step into a fight over a land transfer in Arizona that the Western Apache people say will destroy a sacred site in order to build a massive copper mine.
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the decision to deny the case.
The federal government had been prepared to transfer the site earlier this year but a federal appeals court in August halted the transaction and scheduled argu
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