STANKO v. OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE

No. 17-3176.

916 F.3d 694 (2019)

Rudy Butch STANKO, Plaintiff-Appellant v. OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: February 22, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Isaac Roots , Livingston, MT, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rudy Butch Stanko, Pro Se.

Steven Joseph Gunn , Saint Louis, MO, Mark Clarendon Van Norman , Eagle Butte, SD, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, LOKEN and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.


Rudy Stanko, a non-Indian, filed this common law and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the Oglala Sioux Tribe and various tribal officers, seeking damages for their violation of his constitutional and civil rights. The pro se complaint alleged that, while traveling on a federally-maintained highway on the Pine Ridge Reservation...

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