Here’s where the complicated legal case stands... The members of that tribe allege that the pipeline...will doom the tribe and desecrate the sacred water in Lake Oahe. This would keep them from practicing their religion... In a very narrow ruling premised only on these religious-freedom claims, Judge Jed Boasberg denied this request for a restraining order... The judge promised to rule on the merits of the religious-freedom question before oil starts coursing through the pipeline. Energy Transfer Partners...reports that it has started to bore a hole for the pipeline beneath Lake Oahe, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Its lead attorney said that it could complete construction on the pipeline anywhere from three weeks to two months from now... [The] Standing Rock Sioux Tribe announced that the tribe will move for summary judgement in their suit against Dakota Access...[seeking] a final answer from the district court to...[major] legal questions...: Under federal law, are the Standing Rock Sioux owed an environmental-impact review of the pipeline? And since the U.S. Army Corps promised the tribe just such a review in December, was the Trump administration acting in an “arbitrary and capricious” way by canceling it on the new president’s fourth day in office?