According to CBS 12 in Providence, several members of the group arrested after an armed standoff along a Massachusetts highway earlier this month have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that state courts have no jurisdiction over the case.

The suit filed by the Rise of the Moors group in u-s district court in Rhode Island last week alleges “defamation, discrimination of national origin and deprivation of their rights under the color of law.”

They are seeking $70 million in damages from the July 3 incident.

The Massachusetts State Police and several individual troopers, the judge who handled their arraignments, the state as a whole and several media organizations are named as defendants.