Post-political Career
After January 5, 2006 (effective February 2006), when the South Dakota Supreme Court granted his petition for early reinstatement of his license to practice law (Scott's family opposed the reinstatement) Janklow worked as an attorney. In spring 2006, the Mayo Clinic retained him to lobby against the DM&E Railroad expansion. He also represented landowners who were seeking reimbursement from the railroad for the taking of their property.
On November 4, 2011, he announced during a press conference that he had terminal brain cancer. Janklow died shortly before 11 a.m. on January 12, 2012 at a hospice care facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was 72 years old. Governor Dennis Daugaard ordered that flags across the state be flown at half staff He is buried in Fort Meade National Cemetery, Sturgis, South Dakota.
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