A historic $3.4 billion class action settlement over the mismanagement of government trust funds for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans survived a challenge in a federal appeals court in Washington.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously upheld a trial judge’s finding last summer that the settlement, which required congressional authorization, was fair and reasonable.

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