February 17, 2023
Federal authorities said Friday that they have inked two settlement deals resolving litigation in which some 300 people in the American Southwest, many of Navajo heritage, sought compensation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a catastrophic gold mine blowout in 2015.
August 11, 2022
A New Mexico federal judge on Thursday cut some claims and preserved others brought by Navajo farmers and ranchers against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and an EPA contractor for noneconomic damages from the 2015 Gold King Mine spill.
July 07, 2021
Navajo Nation members can't appeal a New Mexico federal judge's decision to let a mining company and its subsidiary out of litigation related to the 2015 Gold King Mine spill until after the first phase of the trial is over, the judge has ruled.
April 30, 2021
A New Mexico federal judge let a gold mining company out of Navajo Nation members' litigation stemming from the 2015 Gold King Mine spill, finding that the company and the Colorado mine do not have minimum contacts with New Mexico to establish specific jurisdiction for the claims.
December 17, 2020
Sunnyside Gold Corp. asked a New Mexico federal court on Thursday to throw out claims against it resulting from a 2015 mine collapse and toxic spill, saying it can't be held liable for the condition of three bulkheads it had no control over and had finished constructing more than a decade before.
September 26, 2019
A New Mexico federal judge has ruled that a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contractor can challenge the judge's ruling that hundreds of Navajo Nation members didn't bring claims too late against the company in multidistrict litigation over the Gold King mine spill.