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JURIST
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a state law violated the youth plaintiffs’ right to a clean and healthful environment under the state constitution. She further said that the ruling “ignored the fact that Montana has no power to impact the climate.”
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
AUGUST 31, 2021
However, the constitutions of six states do have provisions with explicit environmental rights – Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Now we have an important new decision from Montana. On August 4, 2021, the Montana First Judicial District Court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss in Held v.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Those who spoke extensively, however, seem ready to reject the government’s argument that the statute of limitations at issue here is a strict jurisdictional rule, as opposed to a “mere” claims-processing rule, which could be waived in an appropriate case. Rather, i]t was, does the six-year statute apply or does the 12-year statute apply?
Patently O
MARCH 25, 2021
Montana 8th Judicial District ( Supreme Court 2021 ). Markkaya Gullett was killed in a Ford Explorer crash near her home in Montana. General Jurisdiction : Ford has a longstanding permanent relationship with Montana, advertises heavily in the state, and receives hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars in revenue from in-state sales.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Generally speaking, that line of cases has limited the circumstances in which statutes that impose timing requirements on federal causes of action are regarded as jurisdictional – which means that they automatically and categorically keep a case out of court. Why, you might ask, should this matter? In most cases, perhaps, it would not.
Constitutional Law Reporter
MAY 1, 2023
Supreme Court held that the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is a claim-processing rule rather than a bright-line rule that constrains a court’s jurisdiction. Facts of the Case Larry Steven Wilkins and Jane Stanton own properties in rural Montana that border a road for which the United States has held an easement since 1962.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Transmission lines are, like generation facilities, often held up by litigation. These permitting decisions may then subject transmission lines to NEPA, among other statutes. . The NWP 12 litigation has thus impeded two major pipelines: Keystone XL and Atlantic Coast. Three Recent Pipeline Setbacks. The following day the U.S.
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