Amid speculation about which well-known potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees are on President Barack Obama’s short list, an unidentified senior administration official source tells…
Disbarred in1988 after he was convicted and sentenced to prison for felony theft from a client, Marvin Earl “Toby’’ Alback got his law license reinstated a little over a decade…
Reversing the drunken-driving conviction of a woman who wasn’t allowed to argue at trial that she had to flee a dangerous bar fight, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled that…
A Montana jury yesterday held that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats must pay $850,000 to the family of a 18-year-old who was struck in the head by a…
Environmentalists say a wolf hunt in Idaho is likely to proceed today, after a federal judge in Montana said he needed to review some documents before ruling on a request…
Updated: An emotional closing argument by the lawyer for a medical malpractice plaintiff ended up showcasing the defendant physician’s skills, leading the Montana Supreme Court to order a new trial.
Rescinding a controversial hiring policy that one commissioner called “a gross invasion of privacy,” the governing body of Bozeman, Mont., voted yesterday that its human resources department would no longer…
In the latest blow to federal prosecutors trying a high-profile criminal case, a jury in Missoula, Mont., has acquitted chemical products company W.R. Grace & Co. and three former executives…
A federal judge who blasted federal prosecutors for failing to turn over evidence about a star witness in a Montana asbestos case is allowing the trial to continue.
A federal judge chastised prosecutors yesterday in a hearing on misconduct allegations in the two-month trial of W.R. Grace and five of its former executives. The company…
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