A state Supreme Court justice who shut down construction of a Shinnecock Nation gas station in Hampton Bays rejected the tribe’s request to dismiss a December lawsuit brought by the Town of Southampton to stop the construction.

Justice Maureen Liccione in a 21-page ruling last week rejected the Shinnecock Nation assertion that a January finding by the U.S. Department of the Interior that the 80-acre Westwoods parcel on which the gas station is under construction has any special status that would protect it from town zoning laws or other restrictions.

The prior ruling to cease construction has cost the tribe upward of $22,000 a day, Shinnecock leaders have testified, saying it is impacting tribal aid programs.

The tribe has repeatedly argued that Westwoods, affirmed by the Interior Depar

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