{"id":317,"date":"2011-02-17T19:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=317"},"modified":"2011-02-17T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T23:15:32","slug":"native-alaskan-family-awarded-4-9-million-in-damages-for-trespass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/2011\/02\/17\/native-alaskan-family-awarded-4-9-million-in-damages-for-trespass\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Alaskan family awarded $4.9 million in damages for trespass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A federal judge awarded the Oenga family of Barrow, Alaska $4.9 million dollars in damages against the United States because the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) authorized BP oil company to cross the Oenga&#8217;s property to obtain access to 3 of BP&#8217;s oil fields when the family had only granted permission for access to one of those fields<a href=\"\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2011\/02\/09\/Judge-awards-Alaskan-family-5M\/UPI-92521297313489\/.\" target=\"_blank\">. Judge Awards Alaskan family $5M <\/a>(U.S. News, Feb. 9, 2001)<\/p>\n<p>While the case is, in some sense, an ordinary trespass case, it is complicated by the fact that the BIA has legally-enforceable fiduciary obligations to protect the property rights of Native Alaskans. The Oengas are Inupiats (Eskimos).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge awarded the Oenga family of Barrow, Alaska $4.9 million dollars in damages against the United States because the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) authorized BP oil company to cross the Oenga&#8217;s property to obtain access to 3 of BP&#8217;s oil fields when the family had only granted permission for access to one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13333,14109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trespass-2","category-tribal-property-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-57","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}