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Municipal Judges Seminar Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Municipal judges from around the state of North Dakota gathered in Bismarck for their annual fall seminar on October 6th. The seminar this year covered a number of topics, including a deep dive on Canon 2 of Judicial Ethics, which focused on the duty of impartiality as a judge. Judges also attended sessions on traffic cases, trial and sentencing, and discussed changes to the municipal code that occured in the 2025 Legislative session.

Above, Judge Neil Axel (Retired) from the National Judicial College spoke about handling traffic cases.

Above, Judge Donald Parish (Retired), a Judicial Outreach Liaison for the State of Tennessee, spoke to attendees about trials and sentencing. Judge John Grinsteiner (Retired), the North Dakota Judicial Outreach Liaison also presented.

 

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Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>