105 ABA Journal Montana articles.
Jurors in Missoula, Montana, have convicted a homeowner who claimed the castle doctrine gave him a right to shoot and kill a 17-year-old German exchange student who entered his garage…
Dec 18, 2014 7:01 AM CST
Jurors began deliberations Tuesday in the deliberate homicide case against a Montana man who claimed he had a right to shoot a German exchange student who entered his garage in…
Dec 17, 2014 1:19 PM CST
Less than a decade ago, real estate entrepreneur Tim Blixseth was on the Forbes 400 list, with an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion.
Now, after a divorce, the…
Nov 3, 2014 1:15 PM CST
Saying that more investigation is needed, the Montana Supreme Court has refused a disbarment request by a lawyer who admittedly stole $354,000.
The attorney disciplinary process needs to play out…
Oct 15, 2014 4:50 PM CDT
All but one of Montana’s Supreme Court justices have filed an amicus brief defending a rule that bars judicial candidates from seeking or accepting partisan endorsements.
Six justices filed the…
Sep 16, 2014 7:16 AM CDT
A Montana man accused of shooting a woman to death while he was drunk and she was speaking to a 911 dispatcher from his home in Billings has been released…
Jul 11, 2014 10:45 AM CDT
Corrected: Judge G. Todd Baugh of Billings, Montana, is back in the news, this time for his advice to a fast-food worker.
Baugh told the Burger King employee, 21-year-old Brandon…
Jun 26, 2014 11:52 AM CDT
A trial in Montana nearly had to be rescheduled this month after only half of the 48 individuals summoned for jury duty showed up.
A dozen had contacted the Sanders…
Jun 18, 2014 2:15 PM CDT
After an award of $248.6 million late Tuesday to the survivors of two cousins killed in a July 2011 head-on crash, Hyundai Motor America vowed to appeal in a Wednesday…
May 14, 2014 10:30 PM CDT
Prosecutors who charged a Montana homeowner in the shooting death of a “garage-hopping” student will have to deal with state law giving stronger protections to those who shoot intruders.
Homeowner…
May 8, 2014 4:05 PM CDT
A Montana woman convicted of murder for pushing her husband of barely more than a week off of a cliff in Glacier National Park last summer was sentenced Thursday to…
Mar 27, 2014 8:20 PM CDT
The U.S. Justice Department sees likely gender bias in a failure by the Missoula, Mont., County Attorney’s office to prosecute nonstranger rapes.
In a letter to Missoula County…
Feb 18, 2014 3:16 PM CST
When a hunter kills game out of season, there’s a legal price to pay for poaching.
But there’s no comparable law applicable to the accidental shooting of pets, Montana authorities…
Dec 30, 2013 5:15 PM CST
A Montana woman accused of pushing her husband off a cliff at Glacier National Park a…
Dec 12, 2013 9:35 PM CST
A Montana lawyer will be publicly censured next month for “abusive, disruptive and threatening” comments to another lawyer.
Jeffrey Michael of Billings will be censured on Jan. 7 and his…
Dec 2, 2013 12:45 PM CST
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