VISITING JUDGE IN LITTLE ROCK: I'm Just One of a Couple of Hundred

I, Ronald Norwood Davies, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as U.S. judge for the district of North Dakota according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.

BRISK, somber-eyed little (5 ft. 1 in., 140 Ibs.) Ronald Davies, North Dakota lawyer, took his oath as a U.S. District Judge in Fargo on Aug....

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