{"id":28039,"date":"2017-03-03T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=28039"},"modified":"2017-03-03T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:48:22","slug":"pawnee-nation-first-to-use-tribal-courts-to-sue-oil-companies-over-quake-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2017\/03\/03\/pawnee-nation-first-to-use-tribal-courts-to-sue-oil-companies-over-quake-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawnee Nation First to Use Tribal Courts to Sue Oil Companies Over Quake Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pawnee Nation on Friday filed a lawsuit against several oil and gas companies, accusing the firms of operating wastewater injection sites that triggered the record 5.8-magnitude September 2016 earthquake and caused extensive damage to the tribe&#8217;s nearly century-old buildings.<!--more--><\/p><p>The Associated Press&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/36358810ee214d269c4bab7c90720597?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APCentralRegion\">Sean Murphy reports<\/a> the lawsuit is first quake-related litigation filed in a tribal court:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The case will be heard in the tribe&#8217;s district court with a jury composed of Pawnee Nation members. An appeal could be heard by a five-member tribal Supreme Court, and that decision would be final.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pawnee Nation on Friday filed a lawsuit against several oil and gas companies, accusing the firms of operating wastewater injection sites that triggered the record 5.8-magnitude September 2016 earthquake and caused extensive damage to the tribe&#8217;s nearly century-old buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[654,500],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28039"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28045,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039\/revisions\/28045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}