D.C. District Court Dismisses Standing Rock DAPL Lawsuit

BISMARCK, N.D. - Judge James Boasberg of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted North Dakota's motion to dismiss the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's latest lawsuit to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline.

U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement after the dismissal:

"Even Judge Boasberg could barely make sense of the latest spaghetti against the wall lawsuit seeking a shutdown of a vital part of our nation's energy backbone. Today's dismissal is a win for rationality and sanity. Thank you to the state of North Dakota and Energy Transfer, who have fought for years to put an end to this legal nonsense."

Click here for the Memorandum Opinion.