8th Circuit Sends Indians’ Pipeline Trespass Claims To Bureau Of Indian Affairs

(September 28, 2021, 8:11 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — Native Americans’ trespass claims against oil companies over a pipeline that runs across a reservation should be stayed, not dismissed, under the primary jurisdiction doctrine to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to rule on the dispute, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Sept. 13 in reversing and remanding....