Federal Court Allows Civil Rights Lawsuit Challenging Violations at Standing Rock

Authors

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia Law School

Document Type

Document

Publication Date

9-2020

Abstract

New York, September 3, 2020 — In a significant victory for critics of governmental overreach, Judge Daniel M. Traynor (U.S. District Court for North Dakota) denied motions to dismiss filed by state and county law enforcement defendants and the private security firm, TigerSwan LLC. As a result, the Thunderhawk v. County of Morton civil rights lawsuit, brought by plaintiffs Cissy Thunderhawk, Wašté Win Young, the Reverend John Floberg, and José Zhagñay against North Dakota government officials and TigerSwan, will move forward on the claim that the plaintiffs and the class were denied their constitutional rights to Free Speech.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | First Amendment | Law

Comments

Press Release

Recommended Citation

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Federal Court Allows Civil Rights Lawsuit Challenging Violations at Standing Rock, (2020).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/contemporary_critical_thought/6