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Top Oklahoma court will hear reparations claim from Tulsa massacre survivors
Oklahoma’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a lawsuit filed by the last three living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The 2020 lawsuit filed by Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis Sr. and Lessie Benningfield Randle was dismissed by a lower court in July. But the state’s top court agreed to hear the appeal last week. Tulsa County sheriff, county commissioners and the Oklahoma Military Department have all been named as defendants in the suit. Lawyers for the city argued that “simply being connected to a historical event does not provide a person with unlimited rights to seek compensation from any project in any way related to that historical event.” But the plaintiff

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