The family of a Nebraska couple killed by a former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who was drinking on the job wants a study of alcohol problems by other employees made public.

The Bellers settled a wrongful death suit with the BIA for $2 million. Ex-BIA employee Lloyd Larson was driving drunk when he hit and killed Larry and Rita Beller and another couple on a highway in New Mexico.

The Bellers hope the alcohol survey will be introduced in the civil trial of the other couple. "In our opinion, those people are just as guilty as Lloyd Larson - they should have basically been sentenced the same day as he was," brother Jim Beller told the Associated Press.

The federal judge hearing the suit said he will make the survey public if it is introduced as evidence. Testimony begins today in Albuquerque.

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