TAX DEED: Challenge of County’s purchase of coal rights in 1946 barred by 1-year statute under 1889 Constitution and 1935 statute allowing redemption of subsurface separate from surface… fees not awarded to County because it failed to prove the property in the quiet title complaint was worth less than $50,000 (not because its offer of a lump of coal was not more favorable than final judgment)… Spaulding affirmed. [Read more…]
Environment, wastewater mixing zone
ENVIRONMENT: Issues related to proposed wastewater mixing zone under subdivision deferred pending remand for EIS… private AG fees properly denied… J. Brown affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]
Taxes, goodwill/intangible property regulations
TAXES: Goodwill/intangible property regulations conflict with statutes… Reynolds affirmed. [Read more…]
Coal taxes, county apportionment
COAL TAXES: DOR correctly apportioned tax to counties overlying mine… Sherlock affirmed. [Read more…]
CECRA, abatement plan, RR as “arranger”
CECRA: RR properly not required to comply with ROD abatement plan until approved by Court (ROD challenge was [Read more…]
Venue, witness convenience, interlocutory appeal
VENUE: Curtis’s transfer from Flathead to L&C under §25-2-201(3) not subject to interlocutory challenge. [Read more…]
Taxes, DOR increment financing rules
TAXES: DOR has authority to adopt increment financing rules… Day reversed. [Read more…]
Utilities, windpower electric wholesale rate
UTILITIES: Windpower wholesale rate properly remanded to PSC for redetermination… Tucker affirmed. [Read more…]
Venue, no rationale for change order
VENUE change order by Curtis cannot be reviewed without rationale… order. [Read more…]