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• 8th Circuit affirms attorney fee award in N.D. case

  14-08-2018 17:14 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed an attorney fees award to the State of North Dakota and other plaintiffs in a case challenging a Minnesota energy production law.-North Dakota v. Lange
  
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• UND to host collaborative law training

  14-08-2018 16:38 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The UND School of Law will host a training in collaborative negotiating, sponsored by the North Dakota Collaborative Divorce Group and the Collaborative Law Institute of Minnesota. The 2-day basic training will take place Sept. 7-8.-Training Details
  
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• U.S.: Appeals Court upholds terrorism convictions of 3 Minnesotans

  14-08-2018 15:48 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  WDIO News/AP: " federal appeals court upheld prison sentences for three Minnesota men who were convicted in 2016 of plotting to join the Islamic State group to fight in Syria and kill for the terrorist group."-Opinion Link: United States v. Farah
  
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• S.D.: Colombia-born attorney excited to practice law in Mitchell

  10-08-2018 16:53 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Mitchell Daily Republic: "Morgan Theeler's newest associate is licensed to practice law in two countries, she has a law degree and a master's degree, she's passed the bar in two states and she's only 26 years old."
  
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• Minn. court rules woman's injury from fall at work not compensable

  10-08-2018 15:37 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Business Insurance: "The Supreme Court of Minnesota ruled Wednesday that an employee who fell down a flight of steps while at work is not due workers compensation because she chose not to use a handrail."-Opinion Link: Roller-Dick v. CentraCare Health
  
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• U.S.: Court rejects lawsuit that claims Native American adoption law is racist

  10-08-2018 15:34 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  KJZZ News: "A court has thrown out a bid to void a federal law that challengers say is racist because it places the desires and rights of Native American tribes over the constitutionally protected best interests of children."
  
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• U.S.: Ruth Bader Ginsburg marks 25 years on the bench

  10-08-2018 15:18 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  CNN: "There is something in the current 'Notorious RBG' fervor that offers the perfect paradox for a woman whose early career was marked by rejection and work in the trenches of anti-discrimination law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's superstardom has not
  been fleeting, precisely because of what she did before and what she represents today."
  
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• Burgum appoints former solicitor general Bahr to South Central Judicial District judgeship

  09-08-2018 19:42 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Gov. Doug Burgum has appointed Bismarck attorney and former North Dakota solicitor general Douglas Bahr to a judgeship in the South Central Judicial District, effective Sept. 1. The appointment fills the vacancy created by the retirement of
  Judge Sonna Anderson.-Douglas Bahr Biographical Information
  
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• Mont.: Butte's Bob Carlson now president of American Bar Association

  09-08-2018 15:12 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Montana Standard: "Butte attorney Bob Carlson was confirmed Tuesday as president of the American Bar Association, making him only the second person from Montana to lead the largest professional association of lawyers in the U.S."
  
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• Minority Justice Implementation Committee Aug. 9 agenda

  08-08-2018 18:44 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The agenda for the Aug. 9 meeting of theMinority Justice Implementation Committee and the committee's May 17 minutes have been posted.
  
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• Unlikely pair could usher gun rights case to U.S. Supreme Court

  08-08-2018 16:42 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Reuters: "George Young is a Vietnam War veteran who sued the state of Hawaii three times on his own without a lawyer for the right to carry a handgun, and lost each time. Alan Beck is an independent lawyer who took on Young's appeal for free."
  
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• Life sentence for Spirit Lake Nation murder upheld by Court of Appeals

  08-08-2018 16:30 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  G.F. Herald: "The U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Spirit Lake Nation man serving life in prison for a fatal 2016 stabbing.
  Dallas Wayne Thundershield, 38, of Fort Totten, N.D., hoped the higher court would overturn the sentence that was handed down in January 2017."-Opinion Link: United States v. Thundershield
  
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• John Walstad 1952-2018

  07-08-2018 22:15 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Longtime Legislative Council attorney John Walstad, 66, died Aug. 5 in Bismarck. A UND School of Law graduate, he was admitted to the North Dakota bar in 1978. Funeral arrangements are pending with Bismarck Funeral Home.-John Walstad Attorney Record-Funeral Home
  
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• Judge Hill addresses ABA House of Delegates

  07-08-2018 21:45 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  South Central Judicial District Judge James S. Hill spoke before the American Bar Association House of Delegates at the ABA's Annual Meeting in Chicago Aug. 7. Judge Hill appeared as Chair of the Steering Committee to move the approval of the
  ABA Officers and new Members of the Board of Governors.
  
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• N.D. Attorney General opinion: Aug. 7

  07-08-2018 17:37 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has issued an opinion that, in order to protect voters from being approached from solicitation for sale or gathering of signatures, the statutory 100 feet free speech buffer zone may be measured from outside any
  entrance leading into a polling place.
  
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• 8th Circuit decides N.D. cases

  07-08-2018 17:11 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has issued opinions in two North Dakota cases: it affirmed a conviction in a murder case and reversed a summary judgment in a law enforcement excessive force case.-United States v. Thundershield-Michael v. Trevena
  
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• S.D.: Court, regulators clash over tribal survey for uranium project

  07-08-2018 15:34 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Rapid City Journal: "Federal regulators abandoned a proposed survey of Native American cultural resources at a planned uranium mine site in southwest South Dakota recently, just days before a judge decided the survey is required by federal law."-Opinion Link: Oglala Sioux Tribe v. NRC
  
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• Minn.: Judge allows for appeal of conviction in Byron Smith case to continue

  07-08-2018 15:31 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  KSTP News: "A federal judge has granted a central Minnesota homeowner who killed two teenagers who broke into his home the opportunity to appeal a Minnesota Supreme Court decision to uphold his conviction, according to court records."
  
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• LaMoure County clerk's office to be closed today

  07-08-2018 15:06 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Clerk of Court Office in LaMoure County will be closed today, Aug. 6.
  
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• Justice Crothers addresses ABA House of Delegates

  06-08-2018 20:44 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Supreme Court Justice Daniel Crothers addressed the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association on Monday, Aug. 6. Justice Crothers spoke in favor of a Bylaw Amendment concerning the Standing Committee on Public Protection in the
  Provision of Legal Services.-ABA Proposed Amendments to Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rules 7.1 - 7.5
  
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• LaMoure County clerk's office to be closed this afternoon, tomorrow

  06-08-2018 16:26 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Clerk of Court Office in LaMoure County will be closing at 11 a.m. today and will be closed all day tomorrow, Aug. 6.
  
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• Montana AG to ask U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in decades-old Billings rape case

  06-08-2018 15:39 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  KRTV News: "Montana Attorney General Tim Fox plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a Billings rape case that dates back 31 years. The case involves the rape of an 8-year-old girl in 1987."
  
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• S.D.: U.S. Court of Appeals upholds death sentence for man convicted of 1992 murder

  06-08-2018 15:38 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Sioux Falls Argus Leader: "The death sentence for a man convicted of the murder of a 22-year-old man in 1992 has been upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeals after the man on death row appealed that jurors on his case were biased about his sexual
  orientation."-Opinion Link: Rhines v. Young
  
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• Court adopts amendments to rule on informal complaint procedure

  03-08-2018 21:54 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Supreme Court has issued an Order of Adoption amending N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 44 on informal complaint procedure.The amendments take effect Sept. 1.
  
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• Court seeks comment on proposed specialized dockets committee rule

  03-08-2018 20:00 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Supreme Court has issued a Notice of Comment on proposed N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 60, which would establish an interdisciplinary committee on specialized dockets.Comments are due Sept. 4.
  
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• Eddy County clerk's office closed this afternoon

  03-08-2018 19:57 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Eddy County Clerk of Court's office will be closed the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 3.
  
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• New Opinion: Aug. 3

  03-08-2018 18:15 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Supreme Court posted a new opinion on Aug. 3.
  
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• New law helps protect Minnesota seniors from financial exploitation

  03-08-2018 17:36 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Fox 9 News: "A new law went into effect Wednesday that works to protect seniors from suspected fraud against vulnerable clients.The Safe Seniors Financial Protection Act freezes money while the Department of commerce investigates cases."
  
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• S.D.: State Supreme Court orders new trial for man convicted of 2015 manslaughter

  03-08-2018 16:34 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Sioux Falls Argus Leader: "A Sioux Falls man sentenced to more than a decade in prison after a jury convicted him of first-degree manslaughter in a 2015 accidental shooting will receive a new trial, the state's Supreme Court decided this week."-Opinion Link: State v. Randle
  
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• Kathryn R.L. Rand: A (love) letter to UND Law

  03-08-2018 14:54 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  G.F. Herald: "You can be very proud of North Dakota's law school. Working together over the past 10 years, we have achieved a great deal-more than most of us imagined we could."
  
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• SCJD's new law clerk starts work

  02-08-2018 18:24 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The South Central Judicial District on Aug. 1 welcomed a new law clerk for a one year clerkship. Jenna Bergman of Minot is a 2018 UND School of Law graduate.The SCJD also retained Ashley Hinds, originally of Winnipeg, for a second year as a
  law clerk.
  
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• Iowa woman promoted to nation's lone all-male Supreme Court

  02-08-2018 16:40 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  WQAD News: "Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday promoted a female district judge to the Supreme Court in Iowa, the only state where all of its current justices are men. Susan Christensen will be the first woman on Iowa's high court in
  roughly eight years."
  
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• Minnesota county attorneys run largely unopposed in elections

  02-08-2018 15:17 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  St. Cloud Times: "Minnesota county attorneys are running largely unopposed in upcoming elections, according to data from the Minnesota Secretary of State's website, but experts say that is not uncommon."
  
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• New Opinion: Aug. 1

  01-08-2018 22:02 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Supreme Court posted a new opinion on Aug. 1.
  
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• Court welcomes new law clerks

  01-08-2018 20:34 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Five new law clerks began one-year terms with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Aug. 1:Elizabeth Bertram of Cameron, Mo., Terry Effertz of Reynolds, N.D., Laura Goforth of Buxton, N.D, Jeffrey Sprout of Fargo, N.D. and Allyssa Wall of North
  Sioux City, S.D.
  
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• LaMoure County clerk's office to close this afternoon.

  01-08-2018 17:52 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The LaMoure County Clerk of Court's office will be closed the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 1.
  
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• Story of nearly century old crime passed down through generations

  01-08-2018 16:55 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  My ND Now: "You could say Frances Olson is something of a local historian. And that's a good thing -- because there's lots of details to learn about North Dakota's last lynching."-The Story of North Dakota's Last Lynching
  
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• USD law school reports upturn in passing bar

  01-08-2018 16:53 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Rapid City Journal: "The Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee has formally set its expectations for improved performance at the University of South Dakota law school."
  
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• Minn.: New child support law aims to reduce parent conflict

  01-08-2018 16:00 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  CBS Minnesota News: " A new law that changes the formula for how courts adjust the basic child support amount for parents is set to go into effect [Aug. 1]. The law aims to help Minnesota families who have a child support orders reduce conflicts
  between parents over parenting time."
  
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• Holewa honored with ICM Fellow Star Award

  31-07-2018 18:21 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  State Court Administrator Sally Holewa was presented with the Institute for Court Management Fellow Star Award July 25 at the National Association for Court Management conference. The Star Award is conferred annually on an ICM Fellow who
  demonstrates excellence in the advancement of court administration through leadership and education.
  
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• New Opinion: July 31

  31-07-2018 18:16 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Supreme Court posted a new opinion on July 31.
  
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• Justice Anthony Kennedy in retirement: A different life

  31-07-2018 18:00 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Constitution Daily: "Tuesday, by his choice, is the last day of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's 30-year career on the Supreme Court.If retirement means having time to relish the successes of a working life, Kennedy will have much to remember."
  
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• North Dakota prison officials think outside the box to revamp solitary confinement

  31-07-2018 16:00 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  NPR News: "There are slightly more than 2 million people incarcerated in the United States -- that's nearly equal to the entire population of Houston. Among those prisoners, thousands serve time in solitary confinement, isolated in small often
  windowless cells for 22 to 24 hours a day."
  
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• Minn.: Appeals Court affirms Winona County's mining ban

  31-07-2018 15:51 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  MPR News: "A divided Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld Winona County's ban on frac sand mining.The 2016 ban is Minnesota's first countywide frac sand mining ban. Winona County has some of the largest deposits of silica sand."-Opinion Link: Minnesota Sands v. County of Winona
  
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• New Opinions: July 30

  30-07-2018 23:48 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  The Supreme Court posted 4 new opinions on July 30.
  
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• U.S.: Ginsburg suggests she has at least five more years on the Supreme Court

  30-07-2018 15:30 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  CNN: "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she hopes to stay on the Supreme Court until the age of 90. 'I'm now 85,' Ginsburg said on Sunday. 'My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at
  least five more years.'"
  
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• Court rules against logging project in northwest Montana

  30-07-2018 15:11 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Flathead Beacon: "A federal appeals court has ruled against a proposed logging project in Montana's Kootenai National Forest. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the U.S. Forest Service improperly
  calculated whether the project would exceed limits set for road construction in threatened grizzly bear habitat."-Opinion Link: Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Savage
  
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• Posthumous portraits preserve Minnesota's federal court's history

  30-07-2018 15:06 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Gunnar Nordbye tried associates of the infamous gangster John Dillinger. He dined with royals from his native Norway, and from his Minneapolis courtroom he ruled on the ownership of newly discovered writings from Capt.
  William Clark's historic expedition."
  
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• 3 finalists named for SCJD judge vacancy

  27-07-2018 21:08 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  Three lawyers have been named as finalists to fill the South Central Judicial District judge vacancy. They are: Douglas A. Bahr, Bismarck, Jessica J. Binder, Hazen, and Pamela A. Nesvig, Bismarck. The vacancy was created by the retirement of
  Judge Sonna Anderson.
  
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• Mont.: Helena man who used his truck to stop a high-speed chase appeals conviction

  27-07-2018 17:12 via North Dakota Supreme Court News
  KRTV News: "The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in an appeal from Ron Parsons, a Helena man found guilty of misdemeanor charges after he used his truck and boat to stop a high-speed chase."
  
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