The thread was about the descendants, the descendants can't sue.
Judge Caroline Wall from this 2023 article is from the judicial district of Tulsa:
An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage.
apnews.com
An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921
Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage.
Judge Caroline Wall on Friday dismissed with prejudice the
lawsuit trying to force the city and others to make recompense for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district known as Greenwood.
The nine member court mentioned in the OP made a state decision, not a district decision.
The nine-member court upheld the decision made by a district court judge in Tulsa last year, ruling that the plaintiff’s grievances about the destruction of the Greenwood district, although legitimate, did not fall within the scope of the state’s public nuisance statute.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who were seeking reparations.
apnews.com
Means the case got to the state's supreme court... above the district court where the case was thrown out.
That means the case was appealed to be reviewed by the highest court in the state. The case moved up.
The district judge's decision was challenged on the state level, and the state's decision can be appealed by a higher court.
Since it has been struck down... if I recall from studying law, the case can still be appealed on a federal level.
Which means... this case can reach the Supreme Court and set a federal precedent for reparations.
So this case has been getting struck down and appealed for at least two years, and it has been moving up the legal chain of command every time it's been struck down because it's being appealed.
Trials that get to the Supreme Court cost money.
Once the trial gets to the Supreme Court, a previous case can be used to get reparations this time:
en.wikipedia.org
The
Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States)
100–383, title I, August 10, 1988, 102
Stat. 904,
50a U.S.C. § 1989b et seq.) is a
United States federal law that granted
reparations to
Japanese Americans who had been wrongly
interned by the United States government during
World War II and to "discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil liberties in the future".
This is not the L you think it is... if the survivors die before the case gets to the Supreme Court or during trial then the case dies.
Do you know how the courts work?