Judge Rejects Oglala Tribe’s Pipeline Suit Amendment As Futile

Mealey's (January 11, 2019, 12:51 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Native American tribe is trying to litigate an issue already resolved in the “long-running battle” between Indian tribes and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a District of Columbia federal judge ruled Jan. 10 in denying the tribe’s bid to amend its complaint (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 16-1534, D. D.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4420)....