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Media petition North Dakota Supreme Court for expanded access to Greenpeace trial

February 28, 2025

KVRR Staff,

Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate outside of the North Dakota Capitol in August 2016. A trial brought by pipeline developer Energy Transfer against Greenpeace is underway in Mandan. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A coalition of media organizations, including the North Dakota Monitor, petitioned the state Supreme Court Thursday seeking expanded access…

North Dakota Supreme Court considers motion to reinstate abortion ban while appeal is pending

November 22, 2024

KVRR Staff,

South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick listens to arguments in a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s abortion ban on Oct. 10, 2024, in Bismarck. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, ND (North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota’s solicitor general called on the North Dakota Supreme Court to reinstate an abortion law struck down by a lower court until a final decision…

North Dakota Supreme Court sides with lawmaker over Facebook page challenge

November 12, 2024

KVRR Staff,

The North Dakota Supreme Court heard oral arguments via Zoom Sept. 9, 2024, in a case involving Mitchell Sanderson of Park River and state Sen. Janne Myrdal, R-Edinburg. (Screenshot taken from livestream)BISMARCK, N.D. (Amy Dalrymple – North Dakota Monitor) The North Dakota Supreme Court has sided with state Sen. Janne Myrdal, R-Edinburg, who was sued by a constituent after she…

North Dakota seeks to keep abortion ban while appeal proceeds at state Supreme Court

October 25, 2024

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) The Attorney General’s Office has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to keep the state’s abortion ban in effect while it mulls over a lower court’s decision finding the law unconstitutional. The ban outlawed abortion except when a pregnancy poses a serious health risk to the mother, and in cases of rape…

North Dakota landowners bring challenge of CO2 storage law to state Supreme Court

October 24, 2024

KVRR Staff,

Attorney Derrick Braaten asks a question June 11, 2024, in Bismarck during a hearing on the Summit Carbon Solutions project. Braaten also represents landowners in a lawsuit that challenges state laws related to carbon dioxide storage that is being appealed to the state Supreme Court. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (Amy Dalrymple – North Dakota Monitor) The North…

Judge denies North Dakota request to keep abortion ban in place until state Supreme Court rules

October 10, 2024

KVRR Staff,

South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick listens to arguments in a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s abortion ban on Oct. 10, 2024, in Bismarck. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)(Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) A district court judge denied a request by the state Thursday to suspend his decision striking down the state’s abortion ban while the case goes to…

State or local control of gun sales hinges on Fargo case

September 26, 2024

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – An attorney for the city of Fargo argued Wednesday that a state law infringes on the city’s right to regulate gun stores and threatens the authority of local governments across the state. Attorney Peter Zuger made the arguments for the city to the North Dakota Supreme Court as it appeals a Cass County District…

State asks judge to pause ruling that struck down North Dakota’s abortion ban

September 19, 2024

KVRR Staff,

South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick listens to arguments by attorneys during a hearingBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The state of North Dakota is asking a judge to pause his ruling from last week that struck down the state’s abortion ban until the state Supreme Court rules on a planned appeal. The state’s motion to stay a pending appeal was filed…

ND Supreme Court rejects latest appeal by convicted murderer Dennis Gaede

The North Dakota Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal of a Gardner, North Dakota man convicted in the 2001 murder and dismembering of Timothy Wicks

December 29, 2023

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BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) – The North Dakota Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal of a Gardner, North Dakota man convicted in the 2001 murder and dismembering of Timothy Wicks. Dennis Gaede was sentenced in 2006 to life in prison without parole. In the ruling released this week the state’s high court dismissed the petition for post-conviction relief saying Gaede’s…

North Dakota Legislature returns for special session

October 23, 2023

Jim Monk,

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-Prairie Public) – North Dakota lawmakers are back in Bismarck today to deal with items that were added to the Office of Management and Budget bill during the regular session. The North Dakota Supreme Court recently ruled that portions of the budget bill are unconstitutional because the bill violates the “one subject per bill” clause in the state…