Lawsuit dismissed against former Lieutenant Governor

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against former lieutenant governor and newspaper columnist Lloyd Omdahl He was being sued for libel by a group that includes Roland Riemers Riemers and the other defendants claimed Omdahl s column on a Shared Parenting initiative was libelous and defamatory Omdahl wrote in his column that the initiative quote has got to be the worst initiated measure to be proposed in 68 years District Court Judge Sonja Clapp dismissed the case last week She ruled that that the comments were not defamatory to the plaintiffs Instead they were directed toward the measure not its promoters Riemers describes himself as a civil rights advocate and judicial reformist In the past he s run unsuccessfully in North Dakota for Senate Congress governor and the presidency