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Nation: Prisons resort to video for psychiatric care
MPR News: "As more and more people in prison need mental health care, more and more prison systems are turning to telepsychiatry. It’s basically a video psychiatry appointment, a doctor’s visit via Skype or FaceTime."
Flags at half-staff Tuesday to honor late Supreme Court justice
Bismarck Tribune: "Gov. Doug Burgum has directed all government agencies to fly the U.S. and North Dakota flags at half-staff on Tuesday to honor retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens."
Ruling involving newborn's death from South Dakota mom's drug use could have profound implications
G.F. Herald: "The reversal of a federal court decision to dismiss manslaughter charges against a Sisseton woman could have wide-ranging implications and will likely be back before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit."
U.S.: Ex-Marine, professor, MLB draft pick among high court clerks
Associated Press: "A former Marine who deployed twice to Afghanistan. A patent law professor. A woman who’s blind. Two Rhodes scholars. They’re among the lawyers starting work this summer as law clerks at the Supreme Court."Nation: More than 3,000 prisoners released under First Step Act
CBS News: "Freedom came Friday for more than 3,000 people. They were released from prisons and halfway houses across the country under the First Step Act signed into law by the president last year."Job Announcement
A job announcement for a Contract Attorney with the Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents in the Northeast Central Judicial District has been posted.Job Announcement
A job announcement for a Case Administrator for the U.S. District Court in Fargo has been posted.LaMoure County clerk’s office closed Monday
The LaMoure County Clerk of Court’s office will be closed on Monday, July 22.
8th Circuit decides N.D. case
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has concluded that an appeal in a North Dakota habeas corpus case is moot.