Petition to Permit Temporary Provision of Legal Services

[¶ 1] On December 14, 2016, eight North Dakota licensed lawyers and two lawyers licensed in another state but temporarily licensed in North Dakota filed a petition for an order allowing non-North Dakota licensed lawyers to represent criminal defendants who have been charged as a result of protest activities connected to the Dakota Access Pipeline. The petitioners request that North Dakota’s process for admission of lawyers licensed in another state be significantly changed.

[¶2] The petitioners allege the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as…