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Lawsuit claims Ravalli County pretrial program charges hundreds without due process

Opening statements began Monday morning in a trial for a lawsuit over pretrial supervision fees in Ravalli County, disputing whether the county is violating the due process rights of poorer residents by charging them high monitoring fees to stay out of jail. The case is being tried in Missoula'

Ravalli County jail diversion program bilks defendants, upends due process, plaintiffs allege

MISSOULA — A jail diversion program in Ravalli County upends important values of the justice system by forcing defendants to pay hundreds of dollars a month in fees before they’re ever found guilty, lawyers alleged Monday in federal court. In the class action lawsuit, lawyer Phil Telfeyan of Equal Justice

How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

(AMHERST, MASS.) A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced. This is an inflection point in the global debate over Big Tech liability: For the first time, an American jury is being asked to decide whether platform design itself

Harvey Weinstein rape retrial to start April 14: publicist

Harvey Weinstein rape retrial to start April 14: publicist

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will face a retrial from April 14 on a rape charge on which a jury previously deadlocked, his publicist said Wednesday. The judge in last year's sex crimes trial, itself a partial retrial, declared a mistrial after the jury foreperson refused to return

US plaintiff decries harmful social media addiction

US plaintiff decries harmful social media addiction

The young woman at the center of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit testified on Thursday that YouTube and Instagram fueled her depression and suicidal thoughts as a child, a decline in her mental health that the defense attributed to a dysfunctional family and offline troubles. Visibly nervous in her

Judge sentences former youth hockey coach to 300 years in prison for child sex assault

The former youth hockey coach convicted last September of sexually assaulting three young boys in Butte and Flathead County was sentenced Wednesday to 300 years in prison. District Judge Robert Whelan handed Jami Leslie James 100 years for each of the six counts of sexual intercourse without consent he was

A 12-year-old girl was raped. A lawyer says it took Montana CPS 6 months to contact police.

A 12-year-old girl was raped. A lawyer says it took Montana CPS 6 months to contact police.

Throughout a two-week civil trial in Butte, an attorney cast Montana’s child protection agency as so buried in its own bureaucracy, it failed for six months to do the simplest thing: call the cops about a child rape. Because of that, Lawrence Henke said, a 12-year-old