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Hildebrand v. Stolz
McEVERS, Justice. [¶ 1] Shane Stolz appeals from the district court’s order denying his motion to vacate judgment and the judgment granting Stacey Hildebrand primary residential responsibility of their two minor children, requiring Stolz to make $761 per month in child support payments, and partitioning ...
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Traynor Law Firm v. State
Filed 5/14/20 by Clerk of Supreme Court IN THE SUPREME COURT STATE OF N OR TH DAK OTA 2020 ND 108 Traynor Law Firm, PC, Plaintiff, Appellant and Cross-Appellee v. State of North Dakota, c/o Governor Doug ...
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Estate of Sande
Filed 06/02/2020 by Clerk of Supreme Court IN THE SUPREME COURT STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 2020 ND 125 In the Matter of the Estate of Geraldine Sande, Deceased ------------- Frederick Sande, Personal Representative of the Est...
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City of Fargo v. Mark
VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice. The City of Fargo appealed from a Cass County court order dismissing charges of Driving Under the Influence. We affirm in all four cases. Norman E. Mark, Michael D. Olson, Larry Maul, and Monte Walz were all arrested between October 21 and December 9, 1992. Defendants were detained fr...
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Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota v. Kinsey
ORDER OF INTERIM SUSPENSION On May 3, 1994, this Court was notified by Vivian E. Berg, Counsel for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court, that Robert W. Kinsey, an attorney admitted to practice law in North Dakota, was convicted of making false statements in violation of Section 12.1-11-02(1), N.D.C.C., a cl...
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Brakke v. Kensrud
PER CURIAM. Alice Brakke filed a petition for rehearing with this court on April 25, 1994. In it she asserts that the issue referred to but not resolved by the Court of Appeals in footnote three of Brakke v. Kensrud, 489 N.W.2d 594, 597 (N.D.1992), was raised by her in the original complaint. Brakke’s compla...
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Anderson v. K.S.
MESCHKE, Justice. The State appeals the part of a juvenile court order that set aside a referee’s finding that K.S., a 15-year-old girl, committed the unruly act of being a minor in possession of alcohol. We affirm. At 1:53 a.m. on August 25, 1992, police went to a house in Grand Forks on a “loud party” complain...
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Friesz v. State
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF SUPREME COURT ...
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Anderson v. K.S.
NEUMANN, Justice, concurring. I concur with the majority’s conclusion that, under these circumstances [emphasis added], a minor is culpable only for actual, not constructive, possession. I write separately to emphasize that the circumstances in this case are significantly different from those in which alcohol ...
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Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of North Dakota v. Fisher
ORDER OF SUSPENSION On August 12, 1997, Dennis D. Fisher was served with a Summons and Petition for Discipline, asserting that Mr. Fisher stole a “Buck Tool” with the approximate value of $59.99, from Scheels sporting goods store in Grand Forks and that such behavior was a violation of Rule 1.2(A)(3), North Dakota...
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Koenig v. Schuh
Crothers, Justice. [¶ 1] La Verne Koenig appeals from a judgment entered after a jury found no fault in his personal injury lawsuit against Kenneth Schuh and Jason Schuh. Koenig argues the district court erred in granting partial summary judgment to Patricia Schuh and Mary Schuh, the lack of a trial tran...
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Burgum v. Jaeger
20200298 FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLE...
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Sims v. Sims
Filed 6/2/20 by Clerk of Supreme Court IN THE SUPREME COURT STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 2020 ND 110 Erica Lynn Sims, Plaintiff and Appellant v. Larry David Sims, ...
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North Dakota Case Law

Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener

Every opinion in this dataset comes from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30 (10,798,347 opinions). CourtListener gathered, cleaned, deduplicated and published that record; Free Law Project — the 501(c)(3) non-profit behind it, building free public access to American law since 2010 — pays for it. We sliced and reformatted; they did the hard part. Go to the source: https://www.courtlistener.com.

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Full text of 27,900 North Dakota appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.

Court coverage (2 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched): nd, ndctapp.

Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded. Slice sha256 9163f9a29dc0abfe1e64e486429caf6719edb6138fdfaf57a205a0e70009040e (also in slice.manifest.json).

Composition

Measured on this exact slice: 24,858 documents (89.1%) carry 2,000+ characters of text, 2,780 (10.0%) carry 200-1,999, and 262 (0.9%) are under 200 characters. The short ones are real records, not errors: certiorari denials, one-line orders, and judgment entries. They are kept deliberately (min_chars = 1) so this is the complete public record rather than a filtered subset. Filter on len(text) if you want only substantive opinions.

Format

Rows follow docketx record v1 (one opinion per line): id, doc_type, jurisdiction, title, text, source, license, retrieved_at, plus citation, court, date, and extra (CourtListener opinion/cluster ids, opinion type). The same format is used across every docketx dataset.

Provenance and license

Judicial opinions are edicts of government: uncopyrightable works of the public domain (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). This packaging is released under CC0 1.0. Source: CourtListener bulk export (2026-06-30), Free Law Project — https://free.law. This dataset redistributes public-domain court text; it adds no annotation and asserts no rights.

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