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Fairville Township v. Wells Cty. Water Resource District 2025 ND 209
Docket No.: 20250255
Filing Date: 12/18/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Civil - Administrative Proceeding
Author: Bahr, Douglas Alan

Highlight: Section 61-16.1-51, N.D.C.C., does not authorize water resource boards to assess their costs against governing bodies not acting as a landowner.

Adoption of G.M.H. 2025 ND 208
Docket No.: 20250376
Filing Date: 12/18/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Civil - Adoption
Author: Bahr, Douglas Alan

Highlight: District courts have discretion to terminate parental rights based on abandonment by evaluating whether a noncustodial parent failed to communicate with or support their child without justifiable cause. Courts must assess the specific facts of each case to determine if the parent's lack of contact and care was justified by the circumstances or represented an unjustified failure to maintain the parent-child relationship.

An as-applied constitutional challenge that merely disagrees with how the court weighed the evidence does not demonstrate the statute was applied unconstitutionally.

Interest of B.L.H. 2025 ND 207
Docket No.: 20250397
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Civil - Mental Health
Author: Per Curiam

Highlight: An order granting involuntary treatment with prescribed medication is summarily affirmed under N.D.R.App.P. 35.1(a)(2) and (4).

MidFirst Bank v. Young, et al. 2025 ND 206
Docket No.: 20240266
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Civil - Foreclosure
Author: Tufte, Jerod E.

Highlight: A mortgagor lacks standing to challenge a mortgage assignment between the assignor and assignee as a non-party to that transaction.

A district court abuses its discretion by denying a request for an audio recording without explanation.

Court transcripts carry a rebuttable presumption of accuracy.

A judge advising self-represented litigants to seek counsel does not establish judicial bias.

Harris v. State 2025 ND 205
Docket No.: 20250250
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Civil - Post-Conviction Relief
Author: Crothers, Daniel John

Highlight: A plaintiff seeking postconviction relief is required to show but for counsel's errors, there is a reasonable probability the result at trial would have been different.

Inadequate briefing or support of an issue on appeal will prevent review.

State v. Martinez 2025 ND 204
Docket No.: 20250190
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Criminal - Terrorizing
Author: Bahr, Douglas Alan

Highlight: Under N.D.R.Crim.P. 24, a jury is not empaneled until all jurors, including any alternates, have been qualified, accepted, and sworn.

In a jury trial, jeopardy attaches when the jury is empaneled and sworn.

A court's replacement of a juror with an alternate juror does not generally implicate the Double Jeopardy Clause.

The district court does not abuse its discretion by replacing an empaneled juror with an alternate juror due to an association between a juror and a relative of the defendant.

State v. Martinez 2025 ND 204
Docket No.: 20250191
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Criminal - Attempted Murder
Author: Bahr, Douglas Alan

Highlight: Under N.D.R.Crim.P. 24, a jury is not empaneled until all jurors, including any alternates, have been qualified, accepted, and sworn.

In a jury trial, jeopardy attaches when the jury is empaneled and sworn.

A court's replacement of a juror with an alternate juror does not generally implicate the Double Jeopardy Clause.

The district court does not abuse its discretion by replacing an empaneled juror with an alternate juror due to an association between a juror and a relative of the defendant.

Interest of A.D.-B. 2025 ND 203
Docket No.: 20250371
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Juvenile - Termination of Parental Rights
Author: Per Curiam

Highlight: The juvenile court's order terminating parental rights is summarily affirmed under N.D.R.App.P. 35.1(a)(2).

Interest of M.D.-B. 2025 ND 203
Docket No.: 20250372
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Juvenile - Termination of Parental Rights
Author: Per Curiam

Highlight: The juvenile court's order terminating parental rights is summarily affirmed under N.D.R.App.P. 35.1(a)(2).

Interest of C.B. 2025 ND 203
Docket No.: 20250373
Filing Date: 12/4/2025
Case Type: Appeal - Juvenile - Termination of Parental Rights
Author: Per Curiam

Highlight: The juvenile court's order terminating parental rights is summarily affirmed under N.D.R.App.P. 35.1(a)(2).

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