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Court won’t move climate lawsuit to eastern Montana

A district court judge ruled against an attempt by the state and Montana Speaker of the House Brandon Ler to move a climate-based lawsuit to a different venue hours away, citing a recently passed law. The controversial youth-led climate lawsuit, Held v. Montana II, was filed in Broadwater

Sentencing delayed in Missoula murder case as defense argues for new trial

After Miles Miller was convicted last September of killing his mother in 2023, his sentencing has been delayed several times as the defense argues for a new trial. Over the course of last year’s proceedings before Judge Leslie Halligan, County Attorney Matt Jennings and his team called several witnesses

Government seeks to toss Yellowstone lead poisoning case

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by a Yellowstone National Park employee alleging that his young children were poisoned by lead in park employee housing. The motion comes almost a year after Anthony Aiuppa, an engineer equipment operator in the park, and

New North Carolina law, question on facts pivotal to Mosley appeal

(The Center Square) – Action by North Carolina’s General Assembly has changed the timing for medical malpractice, and enough evidence to ask a jury to resolve contested facts favor Prisha Mosley, her lawyer tells The Center Square. North Carolina’s Court of Appeals received the 73-page appeal brief on

Missoula judge, public defender clash over artificial intelligence use

A dispute over the use generative artificial intelligence in Missoula's district court system boiled over last month with questions of personal bias, leading to a request for the Montana Supreme Court to weigh in. Missoula County District Court Judge John Larson rejected court submissions in multiple cases made

Judge orders California to pay $4.5M in legal fees

(The Center Square) – A federal judge has ordered California to pay $4.52 million in attorneys’ fees to the Thomas More Society, which challenged a state policy related to student gender identity in the case Mirabelli v. Bonta. In a court order, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the

Judge finds state violated discovery law, dismisses DUI charge

A Gallatin County judge dismissed a misdemeanor DUI charge after finding the state failed to comply with its discovery obligations and that an investigator lacked probable cause to support the charge. The defendant in the case, a 57-year-old Park County man, had been accused of driving while intoxicated