April 01, 2020
A New Mexico federal judge has reversed Interior Board of Indian Appeals decisions that rejected the renewal of an oil pipeline company's right-of-way over land belonging to Navajo Nation members, saying the board shouldn't have resolved a crucial issue without letting the parties involved weigh in.
May 16, 2016
The owner of a crude oil pipeline that passes under Navajo land sued the U.S. Department of the Interior in New Mexico federal court on Friday, saying the asterisk it put on a 20-year right-of-way grant emboldened a few part-owners of the parcel to demand an "absurd and extortionate" sum.