Montana Supreme Court

The Tuesday ruling leaves transgender advocates and the state health departments in another legal standoff.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The highly politicized race became the most expensive in Montana history for the state Supreme Court.

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.

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.

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.

The ruling comes amid multi-pronged election administration litigation and also blocks new voter ID requirements adopted by the 2021 Montana Legislature.