Tribe Owed ‘Competent Physician-Led Health Care’ Under Treaty, Judge Rules

Mealey's (March 31, 2020, 8:33 AM EDT) -- PIERRE, S.D. — A South Dakota federal judge on March 30 awarded summary judgment to an Indian tribe — but only to a “limited extent” — on its claim that the United States violated its treaty-guaranteed responsibilities to provide health care services to the tribe’s members when it shut down the tribal hospital’s emergency room for seven months in 2015 (Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. United States of America, et al., No. 3:16-cv-03038, D. S.D., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54323)....