North Dakota Supreme Court

McKenzie Electric Coop., Inc. v. El-Dweek

January 24, 20252024 ND 227

Summary

The Court denied McKenzie Electric’s petition for a supervisory writ seeking to undo the district judge’s recusal and return the case to that judge. It concluded that reassignment did not present a serious question of actual judicial bias, any error could be addressed by appeal, and the principal delay-related harm was largely unavoidable. The Court also declined to depart from its standard reassignment procedures to preemptively disqualify categories of judges.