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Washington's General Rule 37 And Montana's Call For Jury Selection Reform, Ellen Boland Monroe Nov 2023

Washington's General Rule 37 And Montana's Call For Jury Selection Reform, Ellen Boland Monroe

Montana Law Review

In April 2018, the Washington Supreme Court became the first in the nation to adopt a court rule to combat implicit bias in the jury selection process. 2 General Rule 37 (“GR 37”) eliminates the need to raise an inference of purposeful discrimination, lists presumptively invalid reasons for exercising a peremptory strike that are historically associated with racial stereotyping, and uses an objective standard to determine if race or ethnicity could be viewed as a factor in the strike. 3 These changes address growing concerns that the current framework for evaluating biased peremptory strikes has failed to combat discrimination while …


Now What? The Right To Privacy In Montana After Dobbs, Caitlin E. Borgmann Nov 2023

Now What? The Right To Privacy In Montana After Dobbs, Caitlin E. Borgmann

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Severe Or Pervasive Standard In The Modern Age, Levi Kimmel Nov 2023

The Severe Or Pervasive Standard In The Modern Age, Levi Kimmel

Montana Law Review

Rising racial tensions in the South following desegregation catalyzed the introduction of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (CRA). However, protections based on gender were not included until the House floor debate on the bill. Congressman Howard Smith, a staunch segregationist, introduced “sex” as a protected class in Title VII of the act as a “poison pill” meant to kill the bill.4 Title VII of the CRA—prior to Smith’s amendment—prohibited employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. Supporters of the bill feared the inclusion of sex would cause Northern Democrats allied with labor unions to abandon their support …


Montana's Basic Necessities Clause And The Right To Earn A Living, Anthony B. Sanders Apr 2023

Montana's Basic Necessities Clause And The Right To Earn A Living, Anthony B. Sanders

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Revenge Porn: Illustrating Why The Legal System Should Adopt A Comprehensive Response To Nonconsensual Pornography In The U.S., Chance Carter Sep 2022

Reflections On Revenge Porn: Illustrating Why The Legal System Should Adopt A Comprehensive Response To Nonconsensual Pornography In The U.S., Chance Carter

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


How Strong Is Armstrong? What To Make Of Montana's Ambiguous Autonomy Rights In A Post-Roe World, Ben Mckee Sep 2022

How Strong Is Armstrong? What To Make Of Montana's Ambiguous Autonomy Rights In A Post-Roe World, Ben Mckee

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Diffusion Of Soft Immigration Law: Evidence From Asylum Adjudication In The Wake Of Matter Of A-B-, Patrick Kennedy Apr 2022

Diffusion Of Soft Immigration Law: Evidence From Asylum Adjudication In The Wake Of Matter Of A-B-, Patrick Kennedy

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bezhigwan Ji-Izhi-Ganawaabandiyang: The Rights Of Nature And Its Jurisdictional Application For Anishinaabe Territories, Kekek Jason Stark Apr 2022

Bezhigwan Ji-Izhi-Ganawaabandiyang: The Rights Of Nature And Its Jurisdictional Application For Anishinaabe Territories, Kekek Jason Stark

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Race To Jurisdiction: Forum Determination In Dv-Related Child Custody Actions When Survivors Flee Across State Lines, Joy Barber Aug 2021

Race To Jurisdiction: Forum Determination In Dv-Related Child Custody Actions When Survivors Flee Across State Lines, Joy Barber

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Anishinaabe Inaakonigewin: Principles For The Intergenerational Preservation Of Mino-Bimaadiziwin, Kekek Jason Stark Aug 2021

Anishinaabe Inaakonigewin: Principles For The Intergenerational Preservation Of Mino-Bimaadiziwin, Kekek Jason Stark

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Pay Attention! Marginalized Communities, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, And Regulatory Advocacy, Diane E. Thompson Aug 2021

Pay Attention! Marginalized Communities, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, And Regulatory Advocacy, Diane E. Thompson

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Women’S Autonomy In Nondisclosure Agreements For Sexual Misconduct Cases, Rachel L. Wagner Aug 2021

Women’S Autonomy In Nondisclosure Agreements For Sexual Misconduct Cases, Rachel L. Wagner

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bad Apples Or A Rotten Tree: Ameliorating The Double Pandemic Of Covid-19 And Racial Economic Inequality, Nathalie Martin Apr 2021

Bad Apples Or A Rotten Tree: Ameliorating The Double Pandemic Of Covid-19 And Racial Economic Inequality, Nathalie Martin

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tribal Courts, The Violence Against Women Act, And Supplemental Jurisdiction: Expanding Tribal Court Jurisdiction To Improve Public Safety In Indian Country, Adam Crepelle May 2020

Tribal Courts, The Violence Against Women Act, And Supplemental Jurisdiction: Expanding Tribal Court Jurisdiction To Improve Public Safety In Indian Country, Adam Crepelle

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


You Can't Escape Your Past: State V. Blaz And The Future Of 404(B) Evidence In Montana, Britton Fraser Aug 2019

You Can't Escape Your Past: State V. Blaz And The Future Of 404(B) Evidence In Montana, Britton Fraser

Montana Law Review

This note focuses on identity evidence—specifically, the admissibility of evidence of past crimes or acts in order to identify the defendant as the perpetrator of a crime. It explains how the Court, by improperly expanding its prior rulings, opened the floodgates to admit types of behavior that have not constituted uniquely identifying criminal signatures. It also seeks to illustrate the effect this expansion might have on the admissibility of such evidence in the future. Part II of this note begins with a brief background on applicable Montana law and an overview of the law’s purpose. Part II also discusses prior …


Transgender Equality And Dignity Under The Montana Constitution, Caitlin E. Borgmann Apr 2018

Transgender Equality And Dignity Under The Montana Constitution, Caitlin E. Borgmann

Montana Law Review

The United States is seeing a wave of explicit anti-transgender animus, expressed in the form of legislation banishing transgender individuals from full participation in public life. In Montana, such a measure was defeated in the Legislature in the 2017 session. HB 609 would have discriminated against transgender individuals by prohibiting them from using the restroom, locker room, or changing facility in a government building or under public control that corresponds with their gender identity. Following the House Judiciary Committee’s rejection of HB 609, the Montana Family Foundation began collecting signatures on ballot initiative I-183, a nearly identical measure to HB …


The Abolitionist Movement Comes Of Age: From Capital Punishment As A Lawful Sanction To A Peremptory, International Law Norm Barring Executions, John D. Bessler Apr 2018

The Abolitionist Movement Comes Of Age: From Capital Punishment As A Lawful Sanction To A Peremptory, International Law Norm Barring Executions, John D. Bessler

Montana Law Review

The anti-death penalty movement is rooted in the Enlightenment, dating back to the publication of the Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria’s treatise, Dei delitti e delle pene (1764). That book, later translated into English as An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1767), has inspired anti-death penalty advocacy for more than 250 years. This Article traces the development of the abolitionist movement since Beccaria’s time. In particular, it highlights how the debate over capital punishment has shifted from one focused primarily on the severity of monarchical punishments, to deterrence, to one framed by the concept of universal human rights, including the right …


Tales From A Form Book: Stock Stories And Transactional Documents, Susan M. Chesler, Karen J. Sneddon Sep 2017

Tales From A Form Book: Stock Stories And Transactional Documents, Susan M. Chesler, Karen J. Sneddon

Montana Law Review

Tales from a Form Book: Stock Stories and Transactional Documents


Two Steps Forward, Lucy France Apr 2017

Two Steps Forward, Lucy France

Montana Law Review

This is the Foreward for the Symposium Issue of the Montana Law Review


2016 James R. Browning Symposium Keynote, Michael W. Cotter Apr 2017

2016 James R. Browning Symposium Keynote, Michael W. Cotter

Montana Law Review

2016 Browning Symposium Keynote


Institutional Failure, Campus Sexual Assault And Danger In The Dorms: Regulatory Limits And The Promise Of Tort Law, Andrea A. Curcio Apr 2017

Institutional Failure, Campus Sexual Assault And Danger In The Dorms: Regulatory Limits And The Promise Of Tort Law, Andrea A. Curcio

Montana Law Review

Schools are in a position to help reduce the risk of campus sexual assault through risk education. Litigation and publicity against educational institutions could help to shine a light on the problem.


Title Ix And Procedural Fairness: Why Disciplined-Student Litigation Does Not Undermine The Role Of Title Ix In Campus Sexual Assault, Erin E. Buzuvis Apr 2017

Title Ix And Procedural Fairness: Why Disciplined-Student Litigation Does Not Undermine The Role Of Title Ix In Campus Sexual Assault, Erin E. Buzuvis

Montana Law Review

Disciplined-student litigation can does not affect Title IX enforcement in campus sexual assault.


Fighting The Rape Culture Wars Through The Preponderance Of The Evidence Standard, Deborah L. Brake Apr 2017

Fighting The Rape Culture Wars Through The Preponderance Of The Evidence Standard, Deborah L. Brake

Montana Law Review

Fighting the Rape Culture Wars Through the Preponderance of the Evidence Standard


Rape By Malice, Kari Hong Apr 2017

Rape By Malice, Kari Hong

Montana Law Review

When people seek to reform rape law, the focus is on changing the actus reus—either abandoning the force element or redefining consent. This article argues that both approaches overlook a critical opportunity for reform, which is the crime’s mens rea. Knowledge, or general intent, is the most common mens rea in rape offenses. The problem with this mental state is that proving what a defendant knew is one of the hardest parts of any criminal prosecution. Although scholars have explored reckless or negligent standards, this article proposes that states adopt the mens rea of malice—a callous indifference towards the risk …


Indemnification As An Alternative To Nullification, Robert A. Mikos Feb 2015

Indemnification As An Alternative To Nullification, Robert A. Mikos

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Breaking Of A Wave: Jacobsen V. Allstate Ins. Co. And Class Certification, Lucas Hamilton Feb 2015

The Breaking Of A Wave: Jacobsen V. Allstate Ins. Co. And Class Certification, Lucas Hamilton

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Democracy, Foot Voting, And The Case For Limiting Federal Power, Ilya Somin Feb 2015

Democracy, Foot Voting, And The Case For Limiting Federal Power, Ilya Somin

Montana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Public Water, Private Rights: All Are Not Equally Protected When The State Allows Some To Divert Small Quantities Of Ground Water Outside The Permitting System, Carolyn A. Sime Aug 2014

Public Water, Private Rights: All Are Not Equally Protected When The State Allows Some To Divert Small Quantities Of Ground Water Outside The Permitting System, Carolyn A. Sime

Montana Law Review

Public Water, Private Rights: All Are Not Equally Protected When The State Allows Some To Divert Small Quantities Of Ground Water Outside The Permitting System


Severing Ties: The Case For Indefinite Orders Of Protection For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Kelly M. Driscoll Aug 2014

Severing Ties: The Case For Indefinite Orders Of Protection For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Kelly M. Driscoll

Montana Law Review

Severing Ties: The Case For Indefinite Orders Of Protection For Survivors Of Domestic Violence


Human Rights Must Be At The Core Of The Post-2015 International Development Agenda, Ved P. Nanda Jan 2014

Human Rights Must Be At The Core Of The Post-2015 International Development Agenda, Ved P. Nanda

Montana Law Review

The 2013 Honorable James R. Browning Distinguished Lecture in Law