The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2021

District attorneys around the country are deeply involved in lobbying for tough criminal justice legislation, but the minority of prosecutors who push for reform measures exert a powerful influence on state legislators, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Bernstein holds a university professorship chair at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Ever since the Supreme Court decided the Bakke case in 1978, enhancing the “diversity” of a school’s student body has been the only permissible rationale for affirmative-action preferences in higher education.

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ALPS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I love fall in Montana. Fall is also eagerly anticipated at my house because fall brings with it Montana’s deer and elk hunting season. In Montana, kids can hunt as apprentice hunters with a parent once they turn 10 years old. Tough Montana girl!!!” And I said, “You’re right. See, you’re already a great hunter.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 8, 2021

McCormack tells former Washington State Bar Association President Patrick Palace about how she walked out of law school into an access-to-justice crisis. Tom Rombach and Joe Sullivan–former Michigan and Montana bar presidents–interview Utah Justice Deno Himonas about his state’s efforts to address the access to justice gap.

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ALPS

AUGUST 4, 2022

Transcript: Mark Bassingthwaighte: Hello, I’m Mark Bassingthwaighte quick, the risk manager here at ALPS, and welcome to the latest episode of ALPS In Brief, the podcast that comes to you from the historic Florence building in beautiful downtown Missoula, Montana. Because I assume nobody has gone off to law school quite yet.

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ALPS

JULY 30, 2021

And welcome to another episode of ALPS In Brief, the podcast that comes to you from the historic Florence building in beautiful downtown Missoula, Montana. We gone through law school and passed the bar and are practicing. Mark Bassingthwaighte: Hello, I’m Mark Bassingthwaighte, the risk manager here at ALPS.

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ALPS

MAY 18, 2022

CHRIS: It’s a little colder in Montana than I would like, but the warm weather is on the way. CHRIS: Okay, and I’m just curious as we think about one thing, law schools obviously have a role here to play as a kind of a pathway into the profession. I am always pleased to introduce my co-host Bree Buchanan.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court (2021). It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. That framing recapitulates a key point in Gorsuch’s concurrence in Ford Motor Co.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 10, 2022

A fourth female law student told the Daily Montanan she did not report a rape because she learned of the difficulties other students faced.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In terms of law specific, all of my interactions with lawyers have been really positive. I know a lot of people who went to law school and decided not to actually go practice law and a lot of reasons that they cited were because of the mental challenges, the stress, the depression, that type of stuff.

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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

So I got to go with a group of friends out over to your neck of the woods in Montana, the Trail of the Hiawatha and the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes and got to get some cycling in, which was just really wonderful. We are wrapping up a three-part series looking at the interconnection of well-being in law schools. BREE: Yeah.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Transcript: MARK BASSINGTHWAIGHTE: Hello, I’m Mark Bassingthwaighte, the Risk Manager here at ALPS, and welcome to the latest episode of ALPS In Brief, the podcast that comes to you from the historic Florence Building in beautiful downtown Missoula, Montana. That’s why we went to law school, most of us.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

“I’m kind of saying to people, you think that this is like enlightenment, creating more sex crimes every day, getting tougher on sex crimes, but look at some of the history, even the recent history and you start to question that instinct,” Gruber said of her research.

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ALPS

JANUARY 13, 2021

First of all, Vermont, I’m guessing it’s a lot like Montana where these smaller bars, it’s just very easy to know lots of people, right? CHRIS: There’s a couple of things, Chief, that I just love about what happened. CHIEF JUSTICE REIBER: Yeah. BREE: Judge David Shaheed. BREE: David Jaffe. BREE: Right.

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ALPS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Gus and Terry are frequently seen at state bar events and law schools across the state. Transcript: CHRIS NEWBOLD: Hello, and welcome to the National Taskforce on Lawyer Wellbeing Podcast Series, the Path to Wellbeing in Law. But then I went to law school, and actually, I loved law school.

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LegalTalkNetwork

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

hails from Butte, Montana. Per the usual, there was a lot more going on than we could possibly cover but we did manage to feature highlights from the best volunteers and minds in the legal profession. Of particular mention, we sat down with ABA President Bob Carlson, whose small firm (Corette Black Carlson & Mickelson, P.C.)

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2024

“Historically, the Supreme Court is not good at doing Indian law,” said Crispin South, a Choctaw law student at Arizona State University who represented Oklahoma and introduced the proposal. “I I think Justice Brennan once called Indian law cases ‘chicken s**t’ cases.” He pointed to Montana v. US and Oklahoma v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2025

Three years later, they held that Montana could not bar religious schools from a tax-credit program used to fund scholarships for children to attend private schools. And in 2022, they struck down a Maine policy that allowed public funds to be used to pay tuition at non-sectarian schools but not at religious schools.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2024

The most pressing problem is not the government portraying Hunter as Tony Montana from “Scarface,” it’s Hunter himself. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. He’ll have a tough time changing that story now.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2022

In a separate case, Arizona, Montana, and Ohio also challenged the policy in a federal district court in Ohio. In a brief supporting the Biden administration , law professor Stephen Vladeck of the University of Texas Law School suggested that Texas, rather than DHS, has acted in bad faith, by using a “deliberate strategy of judge-shopping.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Recently, the government has revealed that, when it recovered the gun after its was discarded near a school, the gun pouch was coated in cocaine. Lowell expressed outrage that the government would cite his client’s own words or cite the fact that his gun pouch looked like it came from the desk of Tony Montana.

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