Because the City of Fargo is a home rule city which validly adopted an approval voting procedure through its appropriately adopted and enacted home rule charter powers and implementing ordinance, the City of Fargo’s approval voting ordinance supersedes conflicting state laws related to the procedure for the election of city officials, including N.D.C.C. § 16.1-06-04 concerning the form and quality of ballots.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - North Dakota has filed a motion to intervene as a defendant in a federal lawsuit brought by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to shut down a major oil pipeline, arguing that the State has significant environmental and economic interests in the litigation.
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley, with the full support of Gov. Doug Burgum, today joined a 20-state coalition, led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, in a lawsuit seeking to stop a Biden-Harris administration Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) rule that would cost states hundreds of thousands of dollars and drive nursing homes out of business.
Whether Southwest Healthcare Services is a public entity subject to open records laws and, if so, whether they improperly denied a request for records.
Whether Stanley Rural Ambulance District properly noticed a special meeting.2. Whether Stanley Rural Ambulance District properly responded to a request for records.
Attorney General Drew Wrigley has announced that his office won dismissal of legal challenges brought against the state by multiple organizations opposed to laws permitting the State to regulate the development of pore space reservoirs for CO2 storage.
North Dakota Attorney General Drew H. Wrigley announced the North Dakota Lottery contributed $9.92 million to the state’s general fund, to support a drug fighting task force and compulsive gambling treatment efforts during the Fiscal Year 2024, which ended June 30, 2024.
The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the National Rifle Association in its case against a New York state official for allegedly coercing regulated financial entities to terminate their relationships with the NRA to suppress the NRA’s pro-firearm advocacy.
Attorney General Drew Wrigley announced that a 21-state coalition including North Dakota persuaded a federal judge to block the most recent example of federal overreach by the Biden Administration.
BISMARCK, North Dakota (Legal Newsline) – Purdue Pharma, the nation's leading manufacturer of prescription opioids, including OxyContin, is praising a North Dakota judge's decision earlier this month to affirm his dismissal this spring of the state's case against the company.
BISMARCK, North Dakota (Legal Newsline) – A North Dakota judge has tossed the state attorney general's claims against Purdue Pharma that blame it for the opioid crisis - a decision that will be appealed.
A North Dakota county recently declined to pursue a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, turning down a request for a meeting from five heavyweight law firms based from Texas to Washington D.C.
BISMARCK — An appellate panel has upheld a $1.3 million award for the state of North Dakota that helps close a seven-year legal battle between the state and Minnesota relating to restrictions on rural electric utilities and energy companies serving the Upper Midwest.
