Rail Company Owes Tribe Profits For Willful Trespass, Washington Federal Judge Says

Mealey's (March 29, 2023, 1:34 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — BNSF Railway Co. owes a Washington Indian tribe the profits it made from willfully trespassing on the tribe’s land by running 100-car trainloads of crude oil across a reservation easement for nearly nine years without permission from the tribe, a federal judge in the state held on remand after a bench trial....