Cert Sought For Tribes’ Civil Rights Claims Against South Dakota’s Child Services

(April 5, 2019, 10:47 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in directing a trial court to abstain from hearing a suit filed by tribes and tribal members challenging South Dakota’s process for removing children from their homes in emergency situations, the tribes and members argue in a March 4 petition to the U.S. Supreme Court (Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, et al., No. 18-1245, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1165)....