Law 360

MAY 22, 2023

TikTok sued Montana's attorney general in federal court on Monday over the state's first-of-its-kind law intended to ban the social media platform, slamming the law as "flatly inconsistent with the Constitution" and based on unfounded claims that the Chinese government can access users' data.

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JURIST

MAY 7, 2024

” The plaintiffs further assert that the act: [W]ould allow the government to decide that a company may no longer own and publish the innovative and unique speech platform it created. The post TikTok sues US government over bill forcing parent company ByteDance to sell or face ban appeared first on JURIST - News.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A Poplar, Montana man was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 38 months in prison and two years of supervised release for assaulting a police officer with a hammer while law enforcement was responding to an assault at his home. Nolan Hendrickson pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.

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Law 360

MAY 19, 2023

Montana is likely to face stiff legal headwinds as it fends off allegations that its unprecedented TikTok ban is unconstitutional, if the state can't produce any hard evidence of Chinese government interference on the platform.

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The Crime Report

JULY 28, 2022

A new study from the Council of State Governments Justice Center reveals that Native Americans in Montana are more likely to face prison time for certain felonies, spend more time incarcerated and have probation or conditional release revoked than white people, the Daily Montanan reports. days longer than their White counterparts.

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2024

The hearing included testimony from the attorney generals of Montana, Oklahoma and Missouri—states led by Republican governors—who said they have dealt with impacts from Mayorkas’s policies, even though none of them neighbor Mexico. Attorney General Montana Austin Knudsen noted there had been a devastating fentanyl crisis in Montana.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the statute of limitations in the Quiet Title Act is a jurisdictional rule or a claims-processing rule and whether the government can prosecute wire fraud under a “right to control” theory of property. In Wilkins v. United States.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2021

The Attorneys General of Arizona and Montana filed an amended a joint lawsuit Monday alleging that the Biden administration has violated immigration and administrative law. The allegations arise from changes to policies governing the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2024

” Kelly went on to state that: This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans by placing government mandates on them and dictating to parents how to best raise and care for their children. And, yet, that is exactly what this legislation does.”

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LettersBlogatory

MARCH 26, 2021

Montana Eighth Jud icial District Court (S. Montana appeared first on Folkman LLC. The case of the day is Ford Motor Co. It’s a personal jurisdiction decision that keeps the law from going off the rails but also may be important in its future implications. There are two kinds of jurisdiction, general and specific.

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2024

We were governed by a modified Roberts Rules, which provided us with structure so we could get things done in the time allotted (granted, it did take us nearly 8 hours!). He pointed to Montana v. This resulted in wide-ranging debates on these topics, with heated but constructive conversation about our constitutional future.

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JURIST

JUNE 6, 2023

“It’s difficult to articulate what it’s like to be forced out like this,” said Megan, a parent from Montana. The declaration from HRC comes almost a year after a UN expert said that LGBTQ+ rights in the US were being “deliberately undermined” by state governments.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

US District Judge Liles Burke rejected a request from the US government to stay the case while appeals courts determine the appropriate standard of review for state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, which is a central issue to the case before Burke.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2023

The new legislation is the most recent effort by the French government to protect minors from the unintended consequences of using the Internet. The French government’s regulation is also part of broader efforts by Western governments against the Chinese-owned social media company TikTok.

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

In response, Arizona, Montana, and Ohio sued in the Southern District of Ohio to stop the implementation of the memo’s guidance. The court stated “the equity scale tips in the National Government’s favor.” In September 2021 the DHS issued a memo outlining immigration enforcement policies and priorities.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The federal government has settled a case against the Indian Health Service (IHS) Agency for its mishandling of the sexual assaults perpetrated by pedophile doctor Stanley Patrick Weber against Native American boys in Montana and South Dakota, Christopher Weaver and Dan Frosch report for the Wall Street Journal. million.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

” Judge Hein, III analyzed the claims under rational basis review which requires the government to show its actions are related to a legitimate government interest and do not impact a fundamental right or suspect class of people. Federal courts allowed bans in Tennessee and Kentucky to proceed.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. (The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). Now we have an important new decision from Montana. Not so in the United States. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

First, it rejected any violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause , reasoning that there is no “deeply rooted” tradition of impeding the government’s ability to regulate medicine, particularly on the behalf of children. In August, the Eleventh Circuit upheld a similar ban in Alabama.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Cooley that tribal governments — and thus their police officers — have the power to search and temporarily detain non-Indians suspected of breaking federal or state laws within reservations. Breyer’s opinion looks to, and likely extends, the reach of the court’s decision in Montana v. United States.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2023

Representative Zooey Zephyr has joined this cohort after the Montana House of Representatives voted to silence her. Representative Zephyr is in her first term at the Montana legislature and is the first transgender person to be elected to Montatna’s House of Representatives.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Cooley , the Supreme Court upheld a power that tribal governments have long assumed they possessed as a basic necessity of ensuring public safety. Breyer’s opinion begins by embracing the court’s long history of describing and upholding tribal government powers as “retained inherent sovereign authority.”

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

The case stems from a 2016 incident wherein a police officer of the Crow Nation —a federally recognized tribe with an Indian reservation located in south-central Montana—detained Joshua Cooley and searched his truck, which was parked on the side of US Route 212. In 1978, the Supreme Court held in Oliphant v. ” However, Duro v.

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JURIST

JUNE 6, 2022

According to Wilkins’ and Stanton’s legal counsel, the Pacific Legal Foundation , the Forest Service posted a sign in 2006 on the easement advertising public access to the nearby Bitterroot National Forest in Montana.

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Law 360

JUNE 14, 2023

citizens' personal data on social media platforms such as TikTok from being moved to certain countries but that falls short of an outright TikTok ban floated by other government officials and the state of Montana. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would bar U.S.

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Above The Law

MAY 18, 2021

government. Insider ] * A new lawsuit alleges that Montana is infringing on the rights of Native American voters. [ * Kodak and its CEO might be sued over insider trading that allegedly occurred just before the company announced a lucrative deal with the U.S. Maybe they figured regulators didn't know the company still existed.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2021

The decision quiets what some feared would be a further infringement on the inherent sovereignty tribes possess to govern themselves. Cooley examines the sovereign authority of tribal governments over their territory and persons within. United States v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Various disclosure obligations apply if the programming does in fact come from a foreign government entity. The FCC also proposes to require that all of those certifications, even when the program buyer is not a foreign government entity, be included in a station’s online public inspection file.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

States like New Jersey, Montana, and Texas utilize trainers who reject gun-safety laws, mask mandates and have histories of excessive force.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Use of the river’s water has prompted over a century of negotiations and lawsuits, not only between those states and tribes, but also involving the federal government. The government has done so on behalf of the Navajo Nation for water from two of the Colorado River’s main tributaries, but not from the river itself. Navajo Nation.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Louisiana filed suit in the US District Court for its Western District, leading a cohort comprising Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. The pause on the program has proven controversial.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

CSPOA , which has been at the forefront of nationwide efforts to redefine what it means to be a sheriff in modern America, experienced unprecedented success in expanding its programming into law enforcement training in Montana and Texas in 2021. Similar rule changes in Texas and Montana allowed CSPOA to get its courses greenlit there.

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JURIST

JUNE 10, 2021

The permit, issued by the Trump administration in 2017, allowed TC Energy, a Canadian company, to construct the pipeline and maintain facilities in a Montana county. Twenty-one states sued Biden’s administration over the decision.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Vermonters For Good Government ran a strong campaign against the proposal. Montana residents also voted down a proposal to prohibit abortions. Together, all of these states show that hope is not lost, rather it’s up to the people to protect themselves when the government fails to do it. Opponents have been slow to comment.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 1, 2023

Facts of the Case Larry Steven Wilkins and Jane Stanton own properties in rural Montana that border a road for which the United States has held an easement since 1962. The Government claims that the easement includes public access, which petitioners dispute.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Gene Deveraux was sentenced to 100 years in Montana prison for multiple sexual felonies against his former wife and stepdaughter. On appeal to the Montana Supreme Court, Deveraux argued that his conviction should be reversed because the denial of his motion to remove the juror for cause was structural error. In Deveraux v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 17, 2022

But three states – New Hampshire, Montana and Wyoming – have partly failed to comply, leaving the door open for people who intend to harm themselves or others to purchase guns, reports USA Today. As a result, Montana submitted just 36 records, for example. In each of those three states, participation in NICS system is not mandatory.

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