BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and North Dakota higher education officials are discussing how to respond to a judge's order that bars a change in the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname.
Stenehjem said he talked over the issue Thursday with Board of Higher Education president Richie Smith, university system chancellor William Goetz and higher education attorney Pat Seaworth.
Stenehjem would say only that the participants ``discussed generally some of the legal positions the state might take.'
He said he hopes to confer with the full Board of Higher Education at its Nov. 19 meeting in Minot.
A judge has barred the board from changing the Fighting Sioux nickname until a court hearing on Dec. 9.
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The hearing was ordered after a group of Spirit Lake Sioux tribal members filed a lawsuit. They say the board must wait until November 2010 for any decision to get rid of the nickname.
