US Gov't Wants Standing Rock Washout Death Suit Tossed

By Mike Curley (August 16, 2021, 5:49 PM EDT) -- The U.S. government is asking a North Dakota federal judge to throw out wrongful death and injury claims stemming from the 2019 washout of a road on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, saying that maintenance of the road and its surrounding area was at the discretion of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and that the government thus retains sovereign immunity....

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