article_snippet: However, lawsuits are pending to overturn North Dakota's 2004 ban.
article_snippet: the state's 2004 ban is being challenged in state court, where a judge last year ruled the law is unconstitutional, and in federal court, where a U.S. District Court judge took the rare step, for a federal judge, of backing such a ban.
article_snippet: the state's 2004 ban remains in place pending Louisiana's appeal of the state court ruling.
article_snippet: the U.S. Supreme Court later reinstated Michigan's ban in the state court rulingKentucky.
article_snippet: Just a few days after the state court ruling, a U.S. District Court judge struck down the state's 2004 ban, but the Supreme Court decision due by June has been stayed pending appeals.
article_snippet: A U.S. District Court judge granted an injunction last year against the state's 2004 ban, describing the state's 2004 ban as unconstitutional.
article_snippet: In the meantime, the state's 2004 ban is still in effect.
article_snippet: U.S. District Court Judge Karen Schreier struck down the state's 2004 ban in January, but blocked enforcement pending an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
article_snippet: the state's 2004 ban was struck down in January 2014 by a federal judge who said the state's 2004 ban serves "no legitimate governmental purpose.
article_snippet: In November 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals Appeals the Eighth Circuit upheld the state's 2004 ban.