Federal Court Sets August Trial Date for Standing Rock Civil Rights Lawsuit

Authors

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia Law School

Document Type

Document

Publication Date

9-2020

Abstract

New York, September 25, 2020 — Judge Daniel M. Traynor (U.S. District Court for North Dakota) has set aside two weeks for trial starting August 16, 2021 for Thunderhawk v. County of Morton, a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the five-month discriminatory closure of Highway 1806 at the height of the NoDAPL movement at Standing Rock. The trial was set at a recent status conference before Magistrate Judge Charles S. Miller (U.S. District Court for North Dakota), at which swift discovery deadlines were also imposed.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law

Comments

Press Release

Recommended Citation

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Federal Court Sets August Trial Date for Standing Rock Civil Rights Lawsuit, (2020).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/contemporary_critical_thought/5