{"id":19952,"date":"2013-05-30T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=19952"},"modified":"2013-05-30T07:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:45:45","slug":"court-upholds-judge-und-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=19952","title":{"rendered":"Court Upholds Judge, UND Nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UND2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14517\" alt=\"UND2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UND2-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A federal appeals court has upheld a judge&#8217;s decision to throw out a lawsuit by some tribal members over the University of North Dakota&#8217;s now-retired Fighting Sioux nickname.<\/p>\n<p>The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a ruling released Wednesday said the suit filed against the NCAA failed to show that the governing body of college athletics &#8220;acted with discriminatory intent&#8221; when it banned the use of American Indian names and imagery in postseasOn competition.<\/p>\n<p>Minot attorney Reed Soderstrom represented the tribal members. He tells the Grand Forks Herald that he&#8217;s not surprised by the ruling and says his efforts to save the nickname are over.<\/p>\n<p>State voters in June 2012 overwhelmingly endorsed retirement of the nickname. The state has imposed a moratorium on a new nickname until 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A federal appeals court has upheld a judge&#8217;s decision to throw out a lawsuit by some tribal members over the University of North Dakota&#8217;s now-retired Fighting Sioux nickname. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a ruling released Wednesday said the suit filed against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19957,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19952\/revisions\/19957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}