Court of Appeals upholds dismissal of Kenel Rd. suit

The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a federal lawsuit brought by the families of victims in a 2019 road washout on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that resulted in the deaths of two people and serious injuries to two others. The lawsuit - filed in North Dakota against the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Standing Rock ...

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