STATE EX REL. SPAETH v. MEIERS

No. 870053CV.

403 N.W.2d 392 (1987)

STATE of North Dakota ex rel. Nicholas J. SPAETH, Attorney General, and ex rel. Richard Kloubec, Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, Petitioners, v. Ruth MEIERS, President of the North Dakota Senate; and Rolland W. Redlin, President Pro Tempore of the North Dakota Senate, Respondents.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

April 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas J. Spaeth, Atty. Gen. and Laurie Loveland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., State Capitol, Bismarck, for petitioners; argued by Laurie Loveland.

Kenneth M. Jakes, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Bismarck and Christine A. Hogan, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Bismarck, for respondents; argued by Christine A. Hogan.

John Schneider, State Representative, for Charles Mertens, Minority Leader. amicus curiae.

Wayne Stenehjem, State Senator, for John Olson, Senate Minority Leader. amicus curiae.


LEVINE, Justice.

The petitioners, Nicholas J. Spaeth, Attorney General of the State of North Dakota, and Richard Kloubec, Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives (House) request this court to exercise its original jurisdiction and to issue an alternative writ of mandamus requiring the respondents, Ruth Meiers, President of the North Dakota Senate (Senate), and Rolland Redlin, President Pro Tempore of the Senate...

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