March 26, 2021 - 8:24am | By Greg Neft
(Bismarck, ND) -- The North Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a civil lawsuit that was filed over Governor Doug Burgum's executive orders during the pandemic. A cosmetologist in Minot, Kari Riggin, had sued Burgum over his executive orders to close certain businesses as the COVID-19 outbreak was spreading last April. Riggin had been charged with violating one of the governor's orders. A district court had dismissed Riggin's suit, and since the executive order is no longer in effect, the high court ruled the civil case is moot.
