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Amendments to North Dakota's Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Court, and Supreme Court Administrative Rules and Orders were adopted on December 3, 2008.

On March 1, 2009, significant changes to electronic and paper filings, including the redacting of information, will go into affect. For example, within the Rules of the Court, Rule 3.4 - Privacy Protection for Filings Made with the Court - provides for the following items to be redacted:

 

"Unless the court orders otherwise, in an electronic or paper filing with the court that contains an individual's social-security number, taxpayer-identification number, or birth date, the name of an individual known to be a minor, a financial-account number, or, in a criminal case, the home address of an individual, a party or nonparty making the filing must include only: 



  (1) the last four digits of the social-security number and taxpayer-identification number;

  (2) the year of the individual's birth;

  (3) the minor's initials;

  (4) the last four digits of the financial-account number; and

  (5) in a criminal case, the city and state of the home address."

 

A synopsis of the complete amendments can be viewed at www.ndcourts.com/court/notices/20080201/contents.htm