Order of Adoption

Amendments to N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 33

Montana to implement revised legal ethics rules in 2020

Bloomberg News: "The start of 2020 will usher in a number of changes to Montana’s professional conduct rules as a result of the first comprehensive rules review in almost two decades."

Minn.: New laws start in 2020

KNSI News: "Three new laws take effect on Wednesday when the calendar turns to January 1st, 2020. They include rules for pharmacy 'middlemen', dealing with the opioid crises, and cracking down on the animal trade."

Courthouses closed Monday due to weather

The Dickey, Foster, Grand Forks and Stutsman County courthouses will be closed Monday, Dec. 30, due to the weather. Cass and Sargent County will open at noon and Barnes County will open at 10 a.m.

A look back at 2019: A tale of two terms?

SCOTUSblog: "Any review of a calendar year at the Supreme Court necessarily includes two different terms: the term that ends in June and the new one that begins in October and will run into the following year."

Banished native women fight tribal leaders in federal court

NPR News: "Four women from the nation's second largest Indian reservation have turned to the federal court system after they were banished by tribal leadership last year."

Order of Adoption

Amendments to N.D.R.App.P. 14

U.S.: 9 Supreme Court cases that shaped the 2010s

Vox: "If you want to understand what the Supreme Court became in the last decade, consider a 2012 study by University of California, Irvine law professor Rick Hasen. Between 1975 and 1990, Hasen found that Congress enacted 'an average of twelve overrides of Supreme Court cases in each two-year Congressional term.'"

Minnesota Court of Appeals overturns revenge porn law

MPR News: "The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned a state law that makes it illegal to disseminate private sexual images of someone without their permission, arguing it’s overbroad and a violation of First Amendment rights."

Courthouses to close for Christmas holiday

The Supreme Court and all county courthouses will be closed Dec. 25, Christmas Day. On Dec. 24, the Supreme Court and most country courthouses will close at noon. Courthouses in Adams, Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Bowman, Cavalier, Dickey, Divide, Grand Forks, Golden Valley, Morton, Oliver, Pembina, Pierce, Ramsey, Rolette, Steele, Stutsman, Towner, and Traill counties will be closed all day Dec. 24.