Summary
Montana’s court system is generally comprised of Courts of Limited Jurisdiction (Justice, City and Municipal), State District Courts, and the state’s highest court, the Montana Supreme Court.
Courts dealing with specific issues are called specialty courts and include Youth Courts, Drug Courts, Water Court and Workers’ Compensation Court.
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The Montana Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it will issue a final ruling on the Legislature’s subpoenas, rejecting GOP lawmakers’ request to dismiss the case.
The state high court is moving forward with the case because justices say the dispute over Legislative powers is a relevant issue likely to come up again.
The legal battle was prompted by GOP lawmakers who filed subpoenas for the state’s Supreme Court justices and court administrator to obtain internal communications in an unprecedented investigation into allegations of bias and misconduct among the judicial branch. Court officials reject those allegations.
Lawmakers last week withdrew their subpoenas and asked the court to dismiss the case.
However, Court Administrator Beth McLaughlin opposed that move and asked for a final ruling to determine the scope of the Legislature’s subpoena power. The court agreed.
Republican Sen. Greg Hertz says the Supreme Court has a conflict of interest in ruling on the subpoenas and is “once again abandoning normal procedure” by ruling on a withdrawn request.
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Courts of Montana refers to courts of law in the U.S. state of Montana. They include:
- State courts of Montana
- Montana Supreme Court[1]
- Montana District Courts (56 courts, 22 judicial districts)[2][3]
- Montana Youth Courts, Generally assigned to District Court Judges, cases appealed to the Montana Supreme Court.[5]
- Montana Worker's Compensation Court[3]
- Montana Water Court[3]
- Montana Asbestos Claims Court[6]
Federal courts located in Montana
- United States District Court for the District of Montana[7]
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Montana[8]
References
- ^ "Montana Supreme Court". Montanacourts.org. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ^ "MT – District Court". Montanacourts.org. Archived from the original on 2008-06-21. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ^ a b c "Montana Supreme Court". State of Montana. Archived from the original on 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ^ a b c Montana Courts of Limited Jurisdiction Archived 2008-12-25 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Youth Court". Judicial Branch. State of Montana. 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
- ^ Larson, Seaborn (November 28, 2017). "Montana Asbestos Court created to take on hundreds of unresolved cases". Great Falls Tribune. Archived from the original on April 10, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
- ^ "Home". mtd.uscourts.gov.
- ^ "Home". mtb.uscourts.gov.
External links
- National Center for State Courts – directory of state court websites.
- "Montana", Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565,
Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library
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| Note | American Samoa does not have a district court or federal territorial court; federal matters there go to the District of Columbia, Hawaii, or its own Supreme Court. |
