JURIST - North dakota

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) on Wednesday challenged a North Dakota law that places additional requirements on abortion clinics. SB 2305, passed in March, restricts abortion providers to those doctors recognized by a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. Although the providers at Red....... [more]

On April 24, 2012, the Louisiana Senate passed legislation to increase abortion sonogram requirements. The bill was signed by Governor Bobby Jindal in June 2012. This was just one bill in the ongoing debate over abortion laws over the past four decades. More recently, on April 10, 2013, Alabama Gove....... [more]

A state judge in North Dakota said Thursday that he will rule that a 2011 North Dakota law that restricts drug-induced abortions is unconstitutional. Judge Wickham Corwin of the Cass County District Court announced that the law creates an "insurmountable barrier" to abortion and fails to adequately....... [more]

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Tuesday signed SB 2368, a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks gestation based on the controversial premise that a fetus can feel pain at that point. The North Dakota House of Representatives passed the bill last Friday, and it was approved by the North D....... [more]

The North Dakota House of Representatives voted on Friday to pass SB 2368, a measure outlawing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the controversial premise that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks of gestation. The bill was approved by the North Dakota Senate by a margin of 30-17 in Fe....... [more]

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Tuesday signed three laws, HB 1305, HB 1456 and SB 2305, which impose the nation's most severe restrictions on abortion. These new laws, respectively, ban abortion for the purpose of gender selection or genetic abnormalities, ban abortion after a fetal heartb....... [more]

The North Dakota House of Representatives approved legislation on Friday that bans abortion by defining life as beginning at conception. The legislation, known as the personhood measure, passed by a vote of 57-35. The North Dakota Senate approved the measure in February. To become law, the personho....... [more]

The North Dakota legislature passed two bills Friday that would place strict limits on abortion, banning non-emergency abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected and barring terminations sought because of genetic abnormalities. HB 1305 and HB 1456 will go before Governor Jack Dalrymple this week....... [more]

On December 19, 2007, leaders of the Lakota people, a part of the Sioux Nation, traveled to Washington and withdrew from the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851 and the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868, forming the independent Republic of Lakotah. These two treaties gave areas of the Black Hills in North D....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota School of Law and Benjamin Brockman-Hawe of the Bosman Law Firm say that some measure of justice could be brought to the conflict in Syria by amending the statute for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon...Well over one year into th....... [more]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples James Anaya on Wednesday called on US officials to consult with Native Americans in North Dakota about the scheduled sale of land in the Black Hills region of the state. Anaya noted that local Dakota, Lakota and Nakota peoples expressed c....... [more]