Judge Allows Tribes’ Claims Over California Highway Project To Proceed

(March 14, 2017, 1:35 PM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — Two California Indian tribes have alleged facts sufficient to state a claim based on the alleged failure of the U.S. government to engage in a government-to-government consultation process with the tribes under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) for construction of a highway bypass, a federal judge ruled March 10 in declining to dismiss the tribes’ claims against the government (Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, et al. v. United States Department of Transportation, et al., No. 15-cv-04987, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34923)....

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