January 04, 2024
A South Dakota federal judge has ruled that an Indigenous advocacy group has good cause to file a third amended complaint in its lawsuit accusing a hotel and casino of discriminating against Native American patrons after a fatal shooting on its premises, saying it can add four plaintiffs by name.
February 15, 2023
A federal judge in South Dakota declined Wednesday to consolidate discovery in two lawsuits, one brought by the Biden administration, accusing a hotel and casino of discriminating against Native American patrons after a fatal shooting on its premises last March.
September 30, 2022
A Native American advocacy group suing a South Dakota hotel-casino, alleging racial discrimination, urged a federal judge to toss the hotel's counterclaims, saying the establishment and its manager are not the victims in the case.
April 20, 2022
A group representing Native American interests that hit a South Dakota hotel-casino with a federal civil rights lawsuit last month is now leading a boycott against the owners, urging customers and vendors to hold them accountable for their alleged discrimination against Indigenous people.
March 29, 2022
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's chairwoman has urged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to launch an investigation into a South Dakota hotelier's recent threats on social media to ban all Native Americans from the premises following a shooting in one of her hotel-casino's rooms.
March 25, 2022
A nonprofit group representing Native American interests has hit a Rapid City, South Dakota, hotel and casino with a civil rights lawsuit in federal court, claiming that the business threatened to ban all Native people from the premises following a shooting in one of its rooms.