Listen to the Supreme Court Supreme Court of North Dakota

The public can listen to both live and recorded oral arguments of cases before the North Dakota Supreme Court.

These "webcasts" (broadcasts over the Internet) of oral arguments use RealPlayer Basic,^© a free download:

Listening to live webcasts

Click on this link to listen to live webcasts:

The Supreme Court webcasts live all its oral arguments, except mental health cases (and when the Court is hearing cases "on the road"). For the listing of arguments to be webcast, go to the Calendar:

Calendar of cases with case summaries & briefs

Listening to recorded webcasts

Recordings of oral arguments before the Supreme Court since Jan. 1, 2001, are available to be listened to over the Internet. Recordings of all arguments, except those in mental health cases, are available. Recordings of new arguments are available by 5 p.m. on the day of argument. (When the Court is hearing cases outside of Bismarck, the recording are posted when the Court returns.)

The recordings can be reached by clicking on the link on the Calendar page or the Docket page for the case. The individual Calendar page can be reached by clicking or searching:

Calendar of cases with case summaries & briefs
The individual Docket page can be reached by clicking on the Docket link on the individual Opinion or by searching:

Docket
The general Search feature and the Quick Search feature on our homepage can also be used to search for the individual Calendar or Docket pages.