Court Opinion

ID: 9513821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:40:54.030685+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:03.115892
License: Public Domain

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice,
concurring specially.
[¶ 38] I agree with and have signed the opinion written for the Court by Justice Sandstrom. I write separately only to note my discomfort with North Dakota’s statutory version of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact that leaves to the Game and Fish Department the decision of whether or not it will recognize a suspension of hunting privileges in another state and whether or not it will suspend the violator’s hunting privileges in North Dakota. As Justice Sandstrom notes, Gray has not argued an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the Department and Gray has not shown that other similarly situated individuals have not had their hunting privileges suspended. Although the legislative change from the original Compact may have been well intended, those issues nevertheless remain open issues and the legislation remains vulnerable to attack on those grounds.
[¶ 39] Gerald W. VandeWalle, C.J.