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“Although Plaintiffs’ grievances are respectable, they don’t fall throughout the scope of our State’s public nuisance statute,” the courtroom stated.
The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by survivors Hughes Van Ellis, Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle. Ellis died final 12 months on the age of 102.
The plaintiffs appealed the dismissal of the lawsuit by an Oklahoma district courtroom choose, who agreed with town of Tulsa that “merely being linked to a historic occasion doesn’t present an individual with limitless rights to hunt compensation.”
The bloodbath destroyed Tulsa’s upscale Greenwood neighborhood, which had develop into often known as Black Wall Avenue.
Plaintiffs argued that that they had a proper for reparations below town’s public nuisance statute. Additionally they stated town of Tulsa was getting “unjust enrichment” by selling the location of the bloodbath as a vacationer attraction “with out returning any of these advantages to members of the neighborhood.”
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