HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) - A “passionate skier” called “Badge,” named after a popular recreation area and who “feels a part of him is lost” after a devastating wildfire at Badger Two-Medicine. A young woman who believes the deteriorating climate has hurt her ability to play competitive soccer. Another young woman who questions whether having children “is an option in a world devastated by climate change.”
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) - A police officer who impregnated a woman he suspected of drunk driving after telling her “something needs to be done” wasn’t necessarily acting out of the scope of employment, the Montana Supreme Court ruled in answer to a question about state law from a federal appeals court.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) - The Montana Supreme Court upheld an injunction blocking a statewide referendum that could have replaced statewide voting for court justices to a district-by-district process. The measure would have disenfranchised voters by limiting their power to elect more than one of seven justices, the court ruled.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who lost a lawsuit against the doctor who performed a circumcision on her son won’t get another chance to sue after the Montana Supreme Court ruled her expert’s opinion that the doctor did something wrong was properly excluded from the case.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) - A Montana utility was ordered to pay attorneys’ fees and sanctions for its behavior in defending a lawsuit by farmers who sued after an employee of the electric company plowed his vehicle into a herd of cows, killing 10.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Montana recently affirmed a 2018 verdict in favor of a doctor in a medical negligence suit in which lower courts found he was not negligent.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The parent company of the former owner of Missoula, Montana’s water supply system is entitled to legal fees, the Montana Supreme Court determined June 5.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a ruling against Atlantic Richfield Co. in a lawsuit over whether the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) bars a state law claim for restoration damages.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Jan. 18 that it supports the parents in a Montana Supreme Court case involving alleged religious discrimination by the state of Montana.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The Montana Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's ruling throwing out a potential class action suit of individuals who paid property taxes “under protest” because of alleged government deficiencies.
BILLINGS, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a district court's ruling holding that the city of Billings incorrectly paid longevity wage benefits under a negotiated collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Supreme Court on May 30 reversed the judgment of the Montana Supreme Court decision in a case concerning jurisdiction.
&&& HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of the state of Montana said a retired judge who was temporarily hearing some cases in the District Court of the 11th Judicial District, in and for the County of Flathead was right to grant summary judgment to Capital One, NA in a mortgage foreclosure proceeding.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – On March 21, the Supreme Court of Montana released a memorandum opinion on a Workers' Compensation case filed against the state’s Workers' Compensation administrator Liberty Northwest Insurance.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newswire) – The Montana Supreme Court upheld the 13th Judicial District Court’s decision to dismiss a case filed by a former inmate incarcerated at Yellowstone County Detention Facility on March 21.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – In April, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the question of whether plaintiffs can bring a lawsuit under a federal law in a state in which there is no personal jurisdiction.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of the state of Montana recently upheld a district court’s ruling in a wrongful death case brought against Consumer Direct, a provider agency of a personal assistance program.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) – The Montana Supreme Court has overturned a First Judicial District Court's decision regarding insurance coverage, ruling that Robert Fitte's Mountain West automobile insurance policy did not provide coverage for the losses he suffered to work vehicles from a fire that Fitte started to burn trees.
HELENA (Legal Newsline) – The Montana Supreme Court issued a decision July 19 ruling that a boulder that thundered down a hillside and crashed into a house was to be considered a landslide.
