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FILE- This Feb. 13, 2017, file aerial photo shows a site where the final phase of the Dakota Access Pipeline will take place with boring equipment routing the pipeline underground and across Lake Oahe to connect with the existing pipeline in Emmons County in Cannon Ball, N.D. A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the pipeline, ruling Wednesday June 14, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn't adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline passes under the Missouri River. (Tom Stromme /The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)
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Judge won't allow Trump to be added to pipeline lawsuit

Tom Stromme

Judge won't allow Trump to be added to pipeline lawsuit

A federal judge says he's inclined to let a group of individual members of American Indian tribes join a lawsuit over the Dakota Access oil pipeline, but only if they agree to not add President Donald Trump as a defendant

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge won’t allow for President Donald Trump to be added as a defendant on a lawsuit against the Dakota Access pipeline.

A group of Native Americans want to join a lawsuit filed by their tribes. Group members think they might be better suited than tribes to make some claims against the pipeline.

They want to add Trump because his administration pushed through completion of the long-stalled pipeline. The pipeline began shipping oil for customers on June 1.

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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says he’ll let the group members join under certain conditions including they not add Trump.

Boasberg says they’d have to sue Trump separately. The group’s attorney says that’s being considered.

The White House says the administration is confident federal analysis of the pipeline’s environmental impacts “is legally sound.”

First Published: June 16, 2017, 4:00 a.m.
Updated: June 16, 2017, 5:00 p.m.

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FILE- This Feb. 13, 2017, file aerial photo shows a site where the final phase of the Dakota Access Pipeline will take place with boring equipment routing the pipeline underground and across Lake Oahe to connect with the existing pipeline in Emmons County in Cannon Ball, N.D. A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the pipeline, ruling Wednesday June 14, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn't adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline passes under the Missouri River. (Tom Stromme /The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)  (Tom Stromme)
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