Judicial Conference Meeting
Scheduled on Monday, November 23, 2015 @ 9:00 AM
North Dakota Judicial Conference
Agenda
November 23-24, 2015
Bismarck, North Dakota
Monday, November 23, 2015
Pre-conference Session (Breakfast provided)
8:00 – 9:45 a.m. Transition from Clerk Package to Court Package: The Coordination of Odyssey and Effective Business Practices (1.75 CJE) (Picasso/Davinci)
Judge Frank Racek
Presiding Judge, East Central Judicial District
10:00 a.m. Judicial Conference Convenes (Rembrandt)
Call to Order
Judge Bruce Romanick
Chair, Judicial Conference
Roll Call
Sally A. Holewa
Executive Secretary, Judicial Conference
Business Meeting of the Judicial Conference
Memorial Resolutions
Approval of Minutes from the June 18, 2015 Meeting
Committee Reports
Discussion on Guardianship Changes
Other Business
Adjourn
11:30 a.m. Lunch (provided) (Picasso/Davinci)
Education Sessions of the Judicial Conference
1:00 p.m. Social Media & the Courtroom: Impact on Juries (1.5 CJE) (Rembrandt)
Thaddeus Hoffmeister
University of Dayton School of Law
Session 1 – Social Media & Judges (Ethics credits) (Rembrandt)
Thaddeus Hoffmeister
University of Dayton School of Law
Session 2 – Undue Influence and the Role of Neuropsychology (Wyeth/Rockwell)
Dr. Rod Swenson
Fargo, North Dakota
4:15 p.m. Adjourn
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Law & Literature (2 CJE – ethics) (Wyeth/Rockwell)
Patti Alleva
Rodney & Betty Webb Professor of Law
UND School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota
(Hosted by Daniel Crothers, Carol Kapsner, Lisa McEvers,
Dale Sandstrom, and Gerald VandeWalle)
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
7:30 a.m. North Dakota Judges Association Breakfast Meeting (Picasso/Davinci)
8:30 a.m. Indian Child Welfare Act: History, Overview, New Guidelines & Recent Issues
(1.5 CJE) (Rembrandt)
Judge Leonard Edwards
San Francisco, California
Judge William Thorne, (Ret.)
Utah Court of Appeals
Tom Lidot
San Diego State University
Rose-Margaret Orrantia
Tribal Elder, San Diego, California
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions (1.75 CJE)
Session 1 – Evidentiary Issues in Trial Courts (Rembrandt)
Judge Dan Ryan
Detroit, Michigan
Session 2 – Active Efforts and Qualified Expert Witnesses in ICWA Cases
(Wyeth/Rockwell)
Judge Leonard Edwards
San Francisco, California
Judge William Thorne, (Ret.)
Utah Court of Appeals
Tom Lidot
San Diego State University
Rose-Margaret Orrantia
Tribal Elder, San Diego, California
12:00 p.m. Adjourn