Legal Opinion
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 14, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2016-1534PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Designed to transport oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to a storage hub in southern Illinois, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has also borne substantial controversy-in its wake. Most significant has been the opposition from Indian tribes .whose reservations lie in close proximity to the pipeline’s crossing of the Missouri River at Lake Oahe. To block Dakota Access LLC’s construction of that last segment and its operation of DAPL, the Standing Rock. Sioux Tribe filed this suit in July 2016, and the Cheyenne River…
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