Longsoldier family seeks $2.9M in damages

The price of the premature death of A. J. Longsoldier will be paid by the sheriff's offices of Hill and Blaine counties, and the Department of Labor and Industry's Hearing Bureau will decide in the next few months how much it will be.

In September, the Montana Human Rights Bureau Commission overturned the labor department's prior decision, that Hill and Blaine counties were not liable for his death. The commission sent its decision back to the Hearing Bureau to decide what the cost of their responsibility would be.

Last week, lawyers representing the counties and Longsoldier's estate filed bri...