Mealey's (March 8, 2017, 2:31 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — After determining it is unlikely that a Sioux tribe can prove that an easement for completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) constitutes a substantial burden on the tribe’s free exercise of religion, a District of Columbia federal judge on March 7 refused to grant an injunction halting construction on the pipeline (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 16-1534, D. D.C., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31967)....