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Standing Rock Defendants Move To Dismiss On Basis Of Factual Disputes, Columbia Center For Contemporary Critical Thought
Standing Rock Defendants Move To Dismiss On Basis Of Factual Disputes, Columbia Center For Contemporary Critical Thought
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
New York, February 15, 2019. Today, state and county defendants in Thunderhawk v. County of Morton et al. filed motions to dismiss plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint. In their court filings, defendants attach 160 exhibits contesting the peaceful nature of the NoDAPL movement, arguing that their discriminatory closure of Highway 1806 was factually justified. Defendants ask the United States District Court to accept their factual account of the NoDAPL movement over the plaintiffs’.
Standing Rock Plaintiffs File First Amended Complaint, Columbia Center For Contemporary Critical Thought
Standing Rock Plaintiffs File First Amended Complaint, Columbia Center For Contemporary Critical Thought
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
New York, February 1, 2019—Today, Cissy Thunderhawk, Wašté Win Young, the Reverend John Floberg, and José Zhagñay filed their First Amended Complaint in response to state and local defendants’ motions to dismiss. The amended complaint clarifies the civil rights violations caused when defendants closed, to the Tribe and its supporters, the primary road connecting the Standing Rock Reservation to both Bismarck and to numerous public sites of great expressive and religious significance. The plaintiffs are represented by Columbia Law School Lecturer in Law Noah Smith-Drelich and Professor Bernard E. Harcourt through the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought.