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The Montana Supreme Court says environmental regulators disregarded water quality laws when issuing a permit to a mine that provides coal to the Colstrip power plant in southeastern Montana.
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The Tuesday ruling leaves transgender advocates and the state health departments in another legal standoff.
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The GOP-led committee approved the report on party lines after chair Sen. Greg Hertz stripped language accusing the chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court of lying.
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The state’s high court previously considered the case in 2019, after a district court temporarily allowed Helen Weems, a nurse practitioner and the owner of All Families Healthcare in Whitefish, to provide abortions while the case proceeded.
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A special committee of Montana lawmakers released a draft report Thursday detailing concerns that members of the judicial branch deleted public records and fell short of ethics rules.
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The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday sent a legal challenge to a law banning vaccine mandates back to a lower court on a technicality. The decision is part of an ongoing legal battle over House Bill 702, which bans workplace vaccine requirements and discrimination based on vaccination status.
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The highly politicized race became the most expensive in Montana history for the state Supreme Court.
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The election contest between sitting justice Ingrid Gustafson and Republican utility regulator James Brown for a seat on Montana’s highest court is the most expensive Supreme Court race in state history.
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The court’s longest-serving member, Jim Rice, is running for a third eight-year term against Billings trial lawyer Bill D’Alton for a seat on the state’s high court.
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Montana’s Department of Health and Human Services filed a petition asking the state Supreme Court to halt a district judge's ruling ordering the state health department to update gender markers on birth certificates.