DISCOVERY: Dismissal appropriate for failure to provide tax returns… Stadler affirmed. [Read more…]
The Weekly Digest of Montana Law
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DISCOVERY: Dismissal appropriate for failure to provide tax returns… Stadler affirmed. [Read more…]
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DITCH EASEMENT: Prescriptive easement not extinguished by termination of water rights for failure to pay processing fees… Water Court had authority to reopen/reinstate claims… adjacent developer not notified of reinstatement proceeding, [Read more…]
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MARITAL: Surgeon’s income determined partly correctly, partly incorrectly, estate properly valued from when parties no longer in same household… Newman affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]
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MARITAL: Wife not equitably estopped from seeking past-due support… Sherlock affirmed (IOR I-3(d)(v)). [Read more…]
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SPEEDY TRIAL claim involving 519 days between sex offense accusation and initial trial date including 118 days during which Defendant absconded properly rejected even though [Read more…]
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POSTCONVICTION claim of actual innocence of endangerment based on undisclosed new evidence time-barred… Larson affirmed (IOR I-3(d)(v)). [Read more…]
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VERDICT: $1,044,494, bundle of pipe fell onto long-haul driver while construction company forklift operator was unloading a bundle on the other side of trailer, fractured legs/crushed foot. [Read more…]
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VERDICT: Burned apartment building owners’ claim of breach of insurance contract rejected over insurer’s claim of fraudulent application… insurer entitled to $119,726.84 on [Read more…]
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VERDICT: Defense, fire that destroyed outbuildings after neighbor’s barn roof blew off and cut power line. [Read more…]
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ENVIRONMENT: Big Timber Canyon sanitation beetle-kill harvest challenges rejected… Plaintiff member’s declaration of plans to visit area and that project will impair ability to enjoy area and observe wildlife sufficient for standing… Lovell [Read more…]