JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Representative Zoe Zephyr of Montana, the first trans person elected to the Montana House who made headlines after she was barred from the House floor, attended the festival, stating : The First Amendment rights of individuals wins at the end.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, the constitutions of six states do have provisions with explicit environmental rights – Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Now we have an important new decision from Montana. On August 4, 2021, the Montana First Judicial District Court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss in Held v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Generally speaking, that line of cases has limited the circumstances in which statutes that impose timing requirements on federal causes of action are regarded as jurisdictional – which means that they automatically and categorically keep a case out of court. Why, you might ask, should this matter? In most cases, perhaps, it would not.

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OilandGasLawyer

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In 2018 I commented on a case in the 9th Circuit court of Appeals, Murray v BEJ Minerals, LLC , holding that fossils of two “dueling dinosaurs”, a 22-foot-long theropod and a 28-foot-long ceratopsian, “engaged in mortal combat” when “entombed under a pile of sandstone,” were “minerals” under Montana law. Well, not so fast.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2021

Cooley argued that such authority was limited by statute and that there is precedent against the recognition of a tribe’s inherent sovereignty over non-Indigenous persons on their land. Cooley examines the sovereign authority of tribal governments over their territory and persons within.

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Patently O

MAY 25, 2021

Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. In Civil Procedure II, the analysis pattern I learned flowed from first looking to a long-arm statute, seeking out any traditional Pennoyer bases of personal jurisdiction (e.g., Personal jurisdiction was the bulk of our semester, taking us through midterms. 1017 (2021).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 1, 2023

Supreme Court held that the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is a claim-processing rule rather than a bright-line rule that constrains a court’s jurisdiction. 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.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court (2021). The result in Mallory v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Chief Justice John Roberts began with a series of hypotheticals about speeding tickets — e.g., could a driver going 70 MPH in a 55-MPH zone claim he knew the speed limit but be let off the hook because he thought it should be higher because he was driving on open roads in Montana?

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

By a slim 5-4 majority, the Court held that Pennsylvania’s statute requiring out-of-state companies to consent to suit in Pennsylvania courts in order to do business in Pennsylvania does not violate the Due Process Clause. 93 (1917), in which the Court held that a similar Montana law complied with the Due Process Clause.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Issue : Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. Lamoureux v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This includes the Montana case of Brice Harper, 24, gunned down Dan Fredenberg, 40, in his garage. I do not believe that Maryland has a specific Castle Doctrine statute. Fredenberg, 40, was coming over to confront Harper about having an affair with his wife, Heather Fredenberg. ” The rule is.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Even if the decision stands, it applies only in the Ninth Circuit, which encompasses Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Air pollution is governed at the federal, state, and sometimes local levels, and the relevant federal statute is the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

These permitting decisions may then subject transmission lines to NEPA, among other statutes. . Like natural gas and oil pipelines, electricity transmission often requires additional permits from federal agencies, depending on whether the power line will cross or impact federal waters or federal land. Three Recent Pipeline Setbacks.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

December 1 is also the deadline for noncommercial ownership reports to be filed by noncommercial radio stations in Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont , and noncommercial television stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (see our Advisory here ).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s “right to control” theory of fraud — which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person’s economic decision as a species of property fraud — states a valid basis for liability under the federal wire fraud statute.”. United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2022

The district court held that the federal Quiet Title Act’s 12-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional, concluded that a reasonable landowner would have known that the government had been permitting public use of the road since the 1970s, and dismissed the case. We have just one new relist this week. In Wilkins v. New Relist.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2023

Five TikTok users filed a lawsuit in a federal Montana court on Wednesday to stop the state’s newly enacted TikTok ban from going into effect. The five TikTok users argue that the newly enacted law “attempts to exercise powers over national security that Montana does not have and to ban speech Montana may not suppress.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” Environmental Groups Filed NEPA Challenge of Montana Coal Mine Expansion.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The federal district court for the District of Columbia granted BLM’s and federal officials’ motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of claims that they failed to comply with NEPA in connection with 27 oil and gas leasing decisions across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana between September 2016 and March 2019.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2022

Lieberknecht: Transatlantic tug-of-war – The EU Blocking Statute’s prohibition to comply with US economic sanctions and its implications for the termination of contracts. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court / Ford Motor Company v. Eighth Montana District Court and Ford Motor Co. economic sanctions with extraterritorial reach.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of its compliance with Georgia’s registration statute for foreign corporations. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court ). In Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Bernhardt , No. 4:18-cv-05712 (N.D. Washington , No. 22O152 (U.S. 5, 2020).

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

The federal district court for the District of Montana dismissed a lawsuit that sought to compel the U.S. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Federal Court Rejected Claims that Climate Change-Related Developments Necessitated Supplemental NEPA Review for Forest Plan and Projects.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Montana Federal Court Found Failure to Take a Hard Look at Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Review of Coal Mine Expansion. The federal district court for the District of Montana found flaws in an updated environmental assessment for a mining plan modification that extended the life of the Spring Creek Mine, a surface coal mine in Montana.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. Northern Plains Resource Council v. 20-35412 (9th Cir.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. Sierra Club v. 20-2195 (1st Cir.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court finding that the federal-officer removal statute did not provide jurisdiction. Citing “Unique Background” of Case, Montana Federal Court Rejected Transfer of Claims Regarding Public Lands in Wyoming. The federal district court for the District of Montana denied the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. Montana Federal Court Vacated Approvals for Mining Project. First, the Supreme Court concluded that the statute requiring Commission approval of affiliated-interest agreement did not require environmental review.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all. And in the second case, Montana and Wyoming v. In August 2020, then-Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall suggested that the justices put CACI’s case on hold until their ruling in Nestle v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

On February 28, Montana and Wyoming filed a motion seeking to lift the stay and also seeking immediate suspension of the Waste Prevention Rule’s implementation deadlines. The action involved closing valves on pipelines in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court Denied Montana and Wyoming’s Challenge to Washington Actions that Barred Coal Exports. The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” 22O152 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

On July 21, the plaintiffs filed their opposition in district court in Montana to the developers’ motion to dismiss the action as moot. The court also noted that states and localities “expressly maintain control over the local distribution of natural gas under related federal statutes” such as the Natural Gas Act.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Other city and county officials, however, have raised concerns about a statute from the Texas Local Government Code that says municipal bodies like city councils and police departments “may not adopt a policy under which the entity will not fully enforce laws relating to drugs.”.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Montana Federal Court Allowed Some Coal Mining Activity to Take Place While Federal Agency Completed Required NEPA Review. The company said the injunction would “[i]n a matter of weeks … cause severe consequences to the mine and its employees, in an area of Montana that can ill-afford economic displacement.” CP18-5 (FERC Oct.

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