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The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a medical order forcing a woman with bipolar disorder to take medication, ruling that doctors could not medicate her against her will.  The 72-year-old woman was involuntarily committed to the Montana State Hospital in October 2015 because her mental illness prevented her from getting housing, according to the Montana Supreme Court decision filed on Tuesday..

Questions of judicial ethics and fairness, along with the influences of campaign spending on the courts, dominated the discussion at a Montana Supreme Court election forum in Missoula on Monday night.  Only one seat on the ballot is contested, but all four candidates appeared at the University of Montana School of Law to speak to a few dozen people...

Montana has joined 20 other states in filing an amicus brief in support of three young human trafficking victims who filed suit against Backpage dot com.

Special interests inclined to exert their political influence are squaring off and spending big to shape the Montana Supreme Court.  In 2014, the Montana Trial Lawyers Association supported incumbent Justice Mike Wheat while the Republican State Leadership Committee backed challenger Lawrence VanDyke, setting a record of $1...

The day after the Montana Supreme Court returned the matter of confidential student records being released to a best-selling author to the Lewis and Clark District Court, Associate Commissioner of Higher Education Kevin McRae said the Board of Regents was pleased with the decision.

The Montana Supreme Court has returned the issue of whether the Montana Board of Regents and the University of Montana should release private students’ records to best-selling author Jon Krakauer back to the District Court.

The Montana Supreme Court Tuesday said Libertarian candidate for secretary of state Roger Roots will not be removed from Montana’s November ballot, rejecting an argument from Republicans that he didn’t file proper campaign forms.  In a 5-1 decision, the high court said Roots did file the proper forms – although one was late – and that state election officials are not required to strike his name fr

Over the Labor Day weekend, the victim of a fatal fall from Mount Jackson in Glacier National Park was identified as 56 year-old Dann Pilipow of Indiana.

The Markus Kaarma defense team has filed it's final response to the Montana Supreme Court in its effort to gain a new trial for their client who was convicted of deliberate homicide in 2015.

In a unanimous decision, the Montana State Supreme Court has denied convicted serial rapist Toby Eugene Griego’s appeal, but not before the justices admonished police about an investigative practice. The 5-0 Supreme Court decision stated that pretrial publicity did not infringe upon Griego’s opportunity for a fair trial trial...