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(AP/KNZA)--A federal judge has ruled against the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas in its longstanding lawsuit against a water district.
The decision by the U.S. District Judge in Kansas City, Kansas further jeopardizes a reservoir project leaders of the northeast Kansas tribe say is critical for the tribe.
The tribe has lobbied for years to move the reservoir project forward and asked Governor Sam Brownback to intervene. The tribe wants the Nemaha-Brown joint watershed district to use eminent domain to move the reservoir project forward, but the board has refused.
The tribe filed a lawsuit in federal court on June 14, 2006.
The Topeka-Capital Journal reports the Judge wrote in favor of the water district, saying the agreement only stated that eminent domain could be used, not that it must be.
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