BISMARCK — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues in new court documents that a federal judge was wrong to dismiss its latest lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Standing Rock filed the lawsuit, which seeks to shut the pipeline down, last October.

The tribe argues the Army Corps flouted federal law by allowing the Dakota Access Pipeline, also known as DAPL, to operate without an easement to cross Lake Oahe. Lake Oahe is a reservoir of the Missouri River that borders the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota state line.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg dismissed the case in March, finding that the tribe was relitigating claims it already brought before his court in a previous lawsuit filed in 2016.

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