Montana Law Week

The Weekly Digest of Montana Law

Elections, political endorsements, judge candidates

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ELECTIONS: Political committee’s challenge of §13-35-231 prohibition against endorsing judicial candidates (so it can transform nonpartisan elections into partisan elections and attack “left-leaning state judges”) unlikely to succeed on merits given present factual record, preliminary [Read more…]

Suicide liability, troubled teen school, foreseeability

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SUICIDE LIABILITY: Foreseeability evidence improperly limited to what troubled student knew; what operator of tough love boarding school and entity providing program policy knew and whether it was designed to treat suicidal teens also relevant… settlement of school did not settle [Read more…]

Insurance, duty to defend, troubled teen suicide

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INSURANCE: Insurers had duty to defend entity purporting to find boarding school placements for troubled teens, coverage not barred by “professional” exclusion in light of non-professional conduct including panicked school employee failing to aid potentially suicidal teen found [Read more…]

Marital, property, large complicated estate

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MARITAL: Properties properly valued despite no final disclosure by husband prior to trial… wife bound by her filings which essentially allocated to husband certain premarital properties… $71,900 difference between husband’s ballpark figure for art and wife’s $28,100 appraised value properly attributed to husband… distribution of husband’s [Read more…]