8th Circuit Puts End To South Dakota’s Suit Over Mount Rushmore Fireworks

Mealey's (July 29, 2022, 8:50 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — South Dakota cannot succeed on its claim that the federal government wrongly denied a permit for an Independence Day fireworks display at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in 2021, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled July 27 after finding that the court “cannot change what happened last year” and the state “has not shown that it would actually benefit from the elimination of the permitting regime” in a dispute that drew opposition from Native American tribes....