Family Of Slain Indian Allowed To Proceed With Civil Rights Claims Against FBI

Mealey's (June 29, 2017, 3:10 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Family members of a Native American who was shot and killed by a non-Indian have standing to assert claims that federal law enforcement officials’ bias against Native Americans caused the family members to be denied benefits under crime victims’ rights statutes, a divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held June 26 (Earline Cole, et al. v. Matthew Oravec, et al., No. 14-35664, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 11320)....