North Dakota wants the federal government to cover its $38 million cost of responding to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests that rocked the state in 2016 and 2017.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had a duty under federal law to maintain order on federal lands and keep them from being used as a safe haven for protest activity around the state, North Dakota said in a July 18 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota.
But the Corps failed in that duty, the lawsuit said, leaving it up to state and local ...
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