Court Opinion

ID: 9843844
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 02:43:52.924976+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:14.688823
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KAPSNER, Justice,
concurring in the result.
[¶ 17] I concur in the result.
[¶ 18] I remain convinced Ellis I was wrongly decided. Of particular concern is the repetition in paragraph 3 of the majority opinion of the statement from Ellis I suggesting the constitutional status of the Board of Higher Education has no legislative controls. Article VIII, § 6(6)(b) of the North Dakota Constitution provides: “The said state board of higher education shall have full authority to organize or reorganize within constitutional and statutory limitations, the work of each institution under its control, and do each and everything necessary and proper for the efficient and economic administration of said state educational institutions.” (Emphasis added). I do not believe the board is unrestrained by legislative authority.
[¶ 19] That being said, the majority opinion lays out the law of the case doctrine in paragraph 9. On remand, the district court complied with the instructions of this Court in Ellis I. I, therefore, join in Parts III and TV of the majority opinion because they are dictated by the law of the case doctrine.
[¶ 20] DOUGLAS L. MATTSON, D.J., concur.