U.S. District Court postpones investiture of Judge Welte

The United States District Court for the District of North Dakota announces the postponement of the March 19 investiture ceremony for Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, in Fargo.

4-H Leadership Awareness Weekend a success

NewsDakota.com: "Judges Don Hager and Daniel Narum, local attorneys, law students and professors helped youth experience real courtroom skills by arguing a case before a real judge. LAW participants also learned about courtroom etiquette and participated in a mock trial."

Two members of the Exonerated Five speak at UND

UND Today: "Their convictions vacated and records cleared, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana asked listeners to support criminal justice reform."

Dakota Datebook: Partial suffrage for ND

Prairie Public: "North Dakota women received partial suffrage in 1917 after Governor Frazier signed a bill that mirrored similar legislation in Illinois."

Minnesota Supreme Court sides with Winona County on frac-sand ban

Winona Daily News: "The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Winona County did not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution with its ban on frac-sand mining."

Supreme Court declines to hear closely watched bar association dues case

Washington Times: "The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a North Dakota case involving a lawyer’s required bar membership, but those trying to have the practice overturned may soon get another crack at it."

8th Circuit decides N.D. case

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of a North Dakota employment retaliation case.

U.S.: Supreme Court takes up teen’s life-without-parole case

Courthouse News Service: "Taking up the case of a 15-year-old who killed his grandfather, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a juvenile must be ruled 'permanently incorrigible' to get a life sentence without parole."

'It's been a good run': SD chief justice reflects on career

Mitchell Daily Republic: "David Gilbertson has been the South Dakota Supreme Court's chief justice for just shy of two decades, longer than anyone in the state's history. During that time, he told The Daily Republic in Pierre recently, nearly every major issue facing the state's judicial system has changed."

8th Circuit decides N.D. accident cases

In separate appeals involving the same North Dakota incident, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has remanded one case for lack of federal court jurisdiction and the other for new findings and conclusions on the allocation of fault.