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Appeals court upholds election law

North Dakota’s law requiring legislative candidates running in a political party’s primary to get a minimum number of votes to qualify for the general election ballot is constitutional, a federal appeals court said Monday.

October 18, 2011

ND man appeals life sentence for armed robbery

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A Grand Forks man sentenced to life in prison for a bank robbery in Gilby is appealing his sentence.

September 25, 2011

Appeal heard in ND murder-for-hire case

The attorney for an Oklahoma man serving life in prison for killing a North Dakota man says there wasn't enough evidence for jurors to convict Michael Nakvinda.

September 01, 2011

Convicted killer Nakvinda appeals verdict

An attorney for Michael Nakvinda, the handyman found guilty in December of murdering a Fargo dentist, argued on appeal Wednesday there wasn’t enough evidence for jurors to convict him.

By By Dave Roepke, Forum Communications Co. , September 01, 2011

Court upholds guilty plea

Police illegally entered the motel room of a man they suspected of robbing several Grand Forks businesses, but that did not invalidate his confession to the crimes during later questioning, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled.

By By Dale Wetzel, The Associated Press , August 20, 2011

Court throws out N.D. woman’s plea

An appeals court has thrown out a guilty plea of a North Dakota woman accused of disguising tainted drug money in order to get her son out of jail.

August 15, 2011

Appeal denied in weapons charge

An appeals court has upheld the federal conviction of a Jamestown man sentenced to more than four years in prison on weapons charges.

March 30, 2011

Appeals court reverses

An appeals court has reversed a ruling that would have allowed family members of two people killed in a 2002 house fire on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota to sue an insurance company. A dissenting judge called it a “perverse” outcome.

By By Dave Kolpack, The Associated Press , February 21, 2011

Feds: Appeal without merit

FARGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say an appeal by a former Minot commodities broker convicted for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars was filed too late and has no merit.

December 04, 2010

Judge dismisses man’s appeal of conviction in VCSU student’s death

Judge dismisses man’s appeal of conviction in VCSU student’s death FARGO (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out an appeal by a former jailer convicted of killing a Valley City State University student four years ago. Moe Gibbs was convicted of strangling Mindy Morgenstern, 22, of New Salem, in her off-campus apartment. Authorities said she was strangled with a cloth belt and her throat was slit.

September 17, 2010

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Judge rejects appeal in adoption case

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A judge has rejected the appeal of a Grand Forks man who asked to withdraw his guilty plea in an adoption fraud case.

July 16, 2010

Atheist appeals denial of ISNOGOD plate

If proclaiming ILOVGOD on a North Dakota license plate is acceptable, a plate reading ISNOGOD should also be approved, a Fargo man is arguing after his application for the atheistic plate was rejected. Brian Magee is appealing the rejection with higher-ups at the state Department of Transportation, asking them to either approve his plate or recall other plates already issued that have references to the divine. “You can’t have freedom of religion if the government picks one,” Magee said Monday.

By By Dave Roepke, Forum Communications Co. , May 25, 2010

Appeals court rules against Fargo couple

A federal appeals court says a Fargo couple who sued the city over property damage from a broken water main cannot take their case to federal court.

April 14, 2010

Fargo public works directory appeals dismissal

Fargo's former public works director gave notice on Tuesday he is appealing his dismissal over charges that he violated the city's purchasing policy.

April 06, 2010

Fargo Public Works director appeals firing

Dismissed Fargo Public Works director Al Weigel gave notice Monday that he will appeal his March 26 firing, setting up a hearing next week before the city’s Civil Service Commission. Weigel hand delivered the one-page notice to the human resources office at City Hall, beating the 4:30 p.m. deadline to appeal.

By By Mike Nowatzki, Forum Communications Co. , April 06, 2010

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