Category: Montana Resources
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Embattled Courts CLE
Featuring — Mae Nan Ellingson, Hon. Jeffrey Sherlock, Susan Byorth Fox, Mike Dennison, Arren Kimble-Sannit, Tristan Scott, Lee Banville
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Montana Supreme Court Performance Measures and Statistics
From the Montana Judicial Branch SUPREME COURT Performance Measures – This report provides baseline data from three additional performance measures which focus on case processing and related timelines. These “snapshots” give the Court the opportunity to identify where delays in case processing are occurring and to target specific delays for decrease to the extent possible. Case…
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A Past and Future of Judicial Elections: The Case of Montana
Judicial elections are approaching their second century in the United States, and they are not going away anytime soon. After the rise of Jacksonian Democracy in the early nineteenth century, and popular calls for increased judicial independence from the political branches, most states hard-wired the election of judges into state constitutions. Despite reform efforts that…
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Legal Review of Montana Proposed Legislation
Presented by Todd Everts, Chief Legal Counsel/Code Commissioner | Legislative Branch, State of Montana
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Montana Judicial Elections: Does the Past Hold Lessons for Future
Anthony Johnstone, A Faculty Publication, Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana. Montanans never much liked outside influence in their judiciary, and their first line of defense was judicial elections. This may strike us as odd now, in our Citizens United era of unlimited outside money and even national party politics…