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A federal judge found that the state of North Dakota is entitled to almost $28 million for responding to protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017. The state filed the lawsuit in 2019, seeking $38 million for policing the protests.
The judge wrote: “The bottom line: United States had a mandatory procedure, it did not follow that procedure, and harm occurred to the state of North Dakota. The law allows reimbursement for this harm. More than that, the rule of law requires this Court to hold the United States liable to remind it of its role in the larger picture of ensuring peace, not chaos.”
The protest camps were cleared in February 2017.
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