Opinion ID: 4156932
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Whenever duties are imposed on the state or its public officials under chapter 14-12.2.

Text: N.D.C.C. §14-09-09.26. On February 28, 2015, the State filed a notice, “Based on the provisions of North Dakota Century Code § 14-09-09.26 and North Dakota Rules of Civil Procedure 10(a), you are notified that the State of North Dakota is a real party in interest and must be added to the title of all documents.” The State specified no ground for being a real party in interest. [¶41] Robert Carroll’s objection to what he and the district court call the State’s intervention specifically raised the insufficiency of the State asserting a legal conclusion without providing a factual legal ground for the conclusion. [¶42] The State asserts that all that is needed is for it to assert it is a real party in interest and that is it. Even if put to its proof by a disputing party, the State says it does not have to disclose a basis for being entitled to be a real party in interest. [¶43] What the State is asserting here would be like the State in a different type of proceeding saying, “The State is entitled to a search warrant if there is probable cause. We say there is probable cause, so we are entitled to a search warrant but we don’t have to say what the facts are that establish probable cause.”