County fights back against Montana AG order to drop Rocking R Bar case
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By: Annie Johnson - MTN News
Posted at 6:26 PM, Jan 14, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-14 20:27:29-05
(UPDATE) Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert, who represents the Gallatin City-County Board of Health and Health Officer Matt Kelley, released the following message on Thursday afternoon:
The State of Montana is not a party to the R Bar case. The Attorney General may lack authority to âorder and directâ a county attorney to dismiss a case where a local government entity, and not the State of Montana, is the plaintiff.
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Montana AG orders county to drop lawsuit against Rocking R Bar
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By: Annie Johnson - MTN News
Posted at 12:55 PM, Jan 14, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-14 20:16:47-05
(UPDATE) Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert, who represents the Gallatin City-County Board of Health and Health Officer Matt Kelley, released the following message on Thursday afternoon:
The State of Montana is not a party to the R Bar case. The Attorney General may lack authority to âorder and directâ a county attorney to dismiss a case where a local government entity, and not the State of Montana, is the plaintiff.
The Attorney Generalâs letter cites a rule of civil procedure providing that all the parties may sign an agreement to dismiss a case. Today I talked to a party to the R Bar case, Health Officer Matt Kelley. Mr. Kelley does not agree to dismissal, so the rule cited by the attorney general cannot be employed to dismiss the case by noon on January 15, 2021.
Montana AG orders Gallatin Co. to drop lawsuit against Rocking R Bar
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen directed Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert to dismiss the case against the Bozeman business.
By: MTN News
and last updated 2021-01-15 12:31:13-05
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen on Thursday exercised his supervisory powers in the Gallatin City-County Board of Health and Health Officer Matt Kelley v. Rocking R Bar case.
Knudsen directed Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert to dismiss the case
against the Bozeman business that had refused to adhere to the mandate that businesses close at 10:00 p.m. The ten oâclock closure rule defies commonsense. This type of government overreach is devastating to Montana workers and small businesses, Knudsen said in a news release.
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The two letters came after the National Association of Attorneys General published a letter directed at acting U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen that said they were appalled by what happened at the U.S. Capitol last week, when rioters stormed the building resulting in the death of five people, including a Capitol Police officer.