Tribe's challenge dismissed: Lawsuit tried to halt nuclear waste dump

[NVMojo]

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed this year by the Western Shoshone National Council, saying the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas lacks jurisdiction to decide if an 1863 treaty prohibits the Department of Energy from proceeding with plans to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

"Barring some other waiver, the United States' alleged treaty violations may not be redressed by a civil suit in this court," U.S. District Judge Philip Pro wrote in his Nov. 1 order granting a motion by lawyers for the Energy and Interior departments to dismiss the case.

A statement Wednesday by Robert Hager, attorney for the Western Shoshone National Council and four members of the tribe, says he will ask the court to reconsider its decision.

"If the court does not reverse that decision, an appeal will follow" with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, said Hager, a Reno attorney.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Nov-10-Thu-2005/news/4231211.html

[xchrom]

1. yeah -- go ahead and poison everybody!

all i can hear when i think of the yucca mt. debacle is maniacal laughter of a mad scientist -- or maybe this judge.

[ismnotwasm]

2. What crap

I just emailed the article to a friend and I'm going to try to find a copy of the original treaty. I just don't have the words to express my disgust. The ruling may have been legally correct for all I know--it may indeed need to go to a different court-- but the idea of a nuclear waste dump against Native American wishes just pisses me off no end. This shit just never stops.

[Javaman]

3. wow, knock me over with a feather...the U.S. gov't screwed the

Native Americans again? Is anyone really surprised by this anymore?

The U.S. gov't has not honored a single treaty, what makes anyone believe that they will now?