January 29, 2025
The Eighth Circuit has rejected an appeal by an Oglala Sioux rancher who looked to undo a lower court's finding that he was afforded due process before several head of his cattle were impounded when found to be improperly grazing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
August 02, 2023
A South Dakota federal judge said an Oglala Sioux Tribe rancher's allegations that the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs abducted his cattle are purely speculative, refusing to issue a court order forcing federal officials to return the allegedly stolen cows to the rancher amid his long-running livestock impoundment suit.
July 28, 2023
An Oglala Sioux Tribe member has urged a South Dakota federal judge to immediately stop U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs officials from trespassing on what he says is his private land and taking his cattle ahead of a trial set for Aug. 21 against the BIA over an earlier impoundment of his livestock.
May 25, 2023
A South Dakota federal judge ordered a group of Bureau of Indian Affairs officials to face trial in a suit filed nearly a decade ago by a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe over the impoundment of his cattle, ridiculing an administrative court's failure to act in a timely manner days after he was assigned the case.
August 30, 2018
A South Dakota federal judge has declined a bid from federal officials to toss claims in an Oglala Sioux Tribe member's suit over the impoundment of his cattle, but told the man to amend his complaint.