<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><header class="span24 headline_block" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; max-width: 960px; width: 960px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><h1 class=" headline" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Railway asks court for 2nd shot at Bakken crude dispute</h1><section class="byline" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-weight: 700; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><a href="https://www.eenews.net/staff/Niina_H_Farah" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Niina H. Farah</a>, E&E News reporter</div><time datetime="2020-04-01 07:16:58 -0400" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic;" class="">Published: Wednesday, April 1, 2020</time></section></header><section class="span16" style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; max-width: 640px; width: 640px; clear: both; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><section class="content" style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; counter-reset: list-header-num 0; max-width: 600px;"><aside id="image_asset_layout_74133" class="span16 image_asset_layout left" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; max-width: 620px; width: 620px;"><img src="https://www.eenews.net/image_assets/2020/03/image_asset_78109.jpg" alt="Oil train. Photo credit: Roy Luck/Flickr" style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; width: 620px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><p class="caption" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 3px 2px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">BNSF Railway Co. has requested a rehearing in a federal appeals court case over shipping crude oil over American Indian tribal land. Oil tank cars in Trempealeau, Wis., are pictured. <span class="credit" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Roy Luck/Flickr</span></p></aside><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><b class="">Opening paragraphs :</b> </p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">A railway company this week asked a federal court to rehear its plea to block an American Indian tribe's challenge to crude oil shipments close to a reservation in Washington state.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">BNSF Railway Co. on Monday <a href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2020/04/01/document_ew_01.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">asked</a> for a larger roster of active judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the company's legal dispute with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The railway warned that a decision handed down last month by three of the court's judges would have significant implications for the major refineries served by the single rail line and could be more broadly harmful because of the ruling's precedential effect.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;" class="">"This Court is two steps down a path that weakens the uniform federal control of rail carriers that has allowed this quintessential channel of interstate commerce </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">to serve the Nation so well,"</span> BNSF wrote to the 9th Circuit. "The Court should reconsider."</p></section></section></body></html>