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Supreme Court declines to hear Sioux San case
Thursday, June 24, 2021
RAPID CITY, South Dakota — Exactly two months after receiving a writ of certiorari to be heard before the United States Supreme Court, the Court has declined to hear the appeal in Gilbert v Weahkee, upholding the decision of Judge Jeffrey Viken at the district court level.
A June 10, 2021, press release from the plaintiffs described their case as follows: “Three (3) Sioux women from Rapid City, Donna M. Gilbert, Julie Mohney, and Charmaine White Face, filed suit in the local South Dakota federal court only to have their suit dismissed. Proceeding on their own, pro se, the women took their case to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and had their case again dismissed.”
“Undaunted, as many of the patients at the hospital were being harmed in a number of ways, the three women proceeded to the U.S. Supreme Court,” the plaintiffs continued. “They were trying to stop fraud by a federal agency, save their hospital, and make sure the American Indian community members had good health care as provided in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.”
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