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Montana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2023 ruling siding with young climate activists who asserted the state government violated their right to a healthy environment. In August 2023 ...
The 6-1 decision, the first of its kind by a U.S. state supreme court, came in the first lawsuit to go to trial nationwide by young environmental activists challenging state and federal policies ...
Montana's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's decision that had sided with 16 young activists who argued that the state violated their right to a clean environment. The lawsuit was brought by ...
Montana complaint in the First Judicial District Court, Lewis and Clark County, in Helena. [1] [4] The judge denied the state's August 2021 motion to dismiss. [18] In 2022, the Montana attorney general requested that the state Supreme Court take control of the case, asking that discovery be stopped, but the Supreme Court denied both requests. [5]
The Justices focused on whether the Montana Supreme Court's decision to shut down the entire program was discriminatory towards the secular schools, as well as trying to resolve this case with recent decision related to the Free Exercise Clause, such as Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, [12] in which the Court previously ruled ...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) already announced his intention to appeal the decision to the state supreme court, but beyond that, his options are limited, as are those of opponents ...
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen sent MSRR its ballot petition on April 5, 2024, a day after the Montana Supreme Court ordered her to do so. [17] [18] MSRR began collecting signatures for Initiative 128 in April 2024, [19] and submitted about 117,000 signatures for the ballot initiative on June 21, 2024.
Several justices on the seven-member Montana Supreme Court appeared skeptical of the Republican-led state's contention that the 16 young people in the case lacked legal standing to challenge a ...