July 17, 2023
A Montana telecommunications company has received final approval of its $9 million settlement deal resolving claims that it illegally withheld revenue from a group of Blackfeet Nation citizens, clearing the way for more than 1,800 people to ultimately get compensation.
February 10, 2023
A federal judge in Montana gave his preliminary approval to a $9 million settlement that would end litigation in which Blackfeet Nation members said a telecommunications cooperative withheld the revenue from its 2020 sale of certain business assets due to their Native heritage.
August 10, 2022
A Montana federal judge has ruled that Native American customers can continue pursuing racial discrimination claims against a telecommunications cooperative, while he trimmed other claims that the co-op failed to pay the plaintiffs money they were owed when the co-op sold part of its business to a Blackfeet Nation-owned utility.
February 03, 2022
A telecommunications cooperative asked a Montana federal judge to toss all claims but one in a race discrimination suit by the Blackfeet Nation, which alleged it failed to pay tribal customers money they were owed when the co-op sold an exchange to a tribally owned utility.
December 01, 2021
When 3 Rivers Communications sold off a telephone and internet exchange that covered a Blackfeet reservation, the telecom's Native American customers were shuffled off to a new company and denied the money they were owed as member-owners, a new suit claims.