Spokane, Washington (AP)
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in the case of a 28-year-old woman who succumbed to heart failure at the Spokane Reservation jail in 2004.
According to the case brought recently in U.S. District Court, Misty E. Ford was denied the medical attention her family and other inmates sought after her own requests to see a doctor were rejected, the suit says.
Sherry Andrews, representing Ford’s estate, daughters Alyssa and Nichole Ford and her mother, Ethel “Vonnie” Ford, are seeking unspecified damages and legal fees from the federal government, which operates the Bureau of Indian Affairs Wellpinit Law Enforcement and Detention Center.
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Billings, Montana (AP)
Relatives of two Crow tribal members who died on the reservation have filed a lawsuit against federal officials, alleging the deaths were not property investigated and prosecuted because the victims were Native American.
Earline and Cletus Cole and...03-07-2009, 12:08 PM -
Minneapolis, Minnesota (AP)
A federal judge ordered the government to pay just over $1 million in legal fees to the attorneys for a former FBI agent who sued the bureau for alleged retaliation after she filed a 1998 sex-discrimination complaint.
Chief U.S. District Judge...01-13-2008, 02:19 PM -
By Ben Neary
Cheyenne, Wyoming (AP)
A federal judge said last week that he intends to approve a voting plan for Fremont County in time to seat new county commissioners before current terms expire in January.
U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson heard arguments last...08-03-2010, 03:44 PM -
By Mead Gruver
Cheyenne, Wyoming (AP)
An open-government group has asked a federal judge to acknowledge the existence of a juvenile criminal case related to the deaths of three girls on the Wind River Indian Reservation .
The girls – Ohetica Win Elyxis Gardner,...07-28-2009, 03:16 PM -
Las Vegas, Nevada (AP)
Environmentalists and American Indians are challenging plans for a wind energy project near Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
The civil lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas accuses the federal Bureau of Land Management of...02-02-2011, 01:14 AM