The Stu­dent Bar Asso­ci­a­tion of the Uni­ver­sity of South Dakota School of Law selected Clint Sar­gent as recip­i­ent of the stu­dent group’s 2012 Vol­un­teer Ser­vice Award.

“The SBA is proud to acknowl­edge the efforts of Clint Sar­gent with this year’s Vol­un­teer Ser­vice Award,” said Jason Krause, the 2011–2012 pres­i­dent of the Stu­dent Bar Asso­ci­a­tion (SBA).

The Vol­un­teer Ser­vice Award rec­og­nizes an indi­vid­ual who has pro­vided per­sonal time and exper­tise to the var­i­ous stu­dent orga­ni­za­tions at the School of Law. The ser­vices pro­vided include speak­ing on top­ics of impor­tance to law stu­dents and the legal pro­fes­sion to classes, events, infor­ma­tional pro­grams, as well as serv­ing as judges and advi­sors for stu­dent com­pe­ti­tions. (more …)

  Todd Meier­henry has been elected to the Amer­i­can Col­lege of Bond Coun­sel. The Col­lege was cre­ated in 1995 to rec­og­nize lawyers dis­tin­guished for their skill, expe­ri­ence and high stan­dards of pro­fes­sional and eth­i­cal con­duct in the prac­tice of bond law who will con­tribute sub­stan­tially to the accom­plish­ments, achieve­ments and good fel­low­ship of the Col­lege and to the best inter­ests of the bar and the gen­eral pub­lic through the ful­fill­ment of objec­tives of the College.

The College’s objec­tives are to pro­mote high stan­dards of pro­fes­sional and eth­i­cal respon­si­bil­ity in the prac­tice of bond law; to seek to improve bond law and prac­tice; to make avail­able to the bar and to the pub­lic author­i­ta­tive edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als in the field of bond law; to speak upon mat­ters of inter­est and impor­tance to bond law and prac­tice before leg­isla­tive, admin­is­tra­tive and reg­u­la­tory bod­ies, and else­where; to pro­mote the con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion of attor­neys on issues affect­ing bond to pro­vide forums for attor­neys prac­tic­ing bond law to meet and exchange ideas and pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence; and to coop­er­ate and con­sult with national, state and local bar orga­ni­za­tions, gov­ern­ment agen­cies, issuer orga­ni­za­tions, and other groups which have an inter­est in bond law and prac­tice, includ­ing but not lim­ited to the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Bond Lawyers.

The South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed a Cir­cuit Court Judge’s find­ing that an ordi­nance passed by the City of Sioux Falls was uncon­sti­tu­tional.  Meier­henry Sargent’s client chal­lenged the City’s ordi­nance regard­ing the grant or denial of an on-sale alco­holic bev­er­age license because it placed restric­tions on the loca­tions where video lot­tery casi­nos could be placed.  The ordi­nance stated that no new video lot­tery casino could be placed within 2,000 feet of any school, park, or other video lot­tery machine place­ment. The ordi­nance did not con­tain sim­i­lar require­ment for alco­hol licenses that did not include video lot­tery machines.

Mark V. Meier­henry Received the 60^th Annual Mar­shall M. McKu­sick Award from the Uni­ver­sity of South Dakota Stu­dent Bar Asso­ci­a­tion at the 2011 South Dakota State Bar Con­ven­tion. The McKu­sick Award is pre­sented yearly to an out­stand­ing mem­ber of the South Dakota Bar for con­tri­bu­tions to the legal pro­fes­sion. Mr. Meier­henry was selected for his life­time of ser­vice and ded­i­ca­tion to the prac­tice and study of law in South Dakota.