Remembering The 51 Day Standoff In Waco, Texas – 25 Years Later

The Civil Suits

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The surviving Branch Davidians weren’t the only people who experienced legal backlash from the Waco siege. Several of the surviving members, as well as hundreds of family members of the deceased, brought civil suits against the United States Government, federal officials, the Texas National Gaurd, and former Texas governor Ann Richards. The court rejected the Branch Davidian’s case claiming that the government had initiated the first gun battle resulting in the deaths of federal agents and Branch Davidians. The lawsuits against the government were also rejected which found the planning of the siege was within legal bounds and that the Branch Davidians had started the fires.