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Montana Supreme Court fight continues over SB 140; Legislature subpoenas emails Traci Rosenbaum, Great Falls Tribune A Montana Supreme Court battle over a 2021 senate bill allowing Gov. Greg Gianforte to choose his own interim judges continued Monday as the court temporarily struck down a subpoena requesting emails from the Office of the Court Administrator. The subpoena, filed Thursday by the Montana State Legislature, was issued to Acting Director of the Department of Administration Misty Ann Giles. Gainforte appointed Giles to the position in December 2020. She has not yet ...

With in-person services shuttered amid the pandemic, countless American Jews prepared to celebrate the High Holidays over Zoom last September. Behind the scenes, one rabbi was in a race against the clock to make that possible. “It was really almost at the 11th hour,” said Rabbi Joshua Heller, the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Torah in Atlanta. “We were about three weeks out from the High Holidays when finally we got to the right person and finally we got to ‘Yes.’” The “Yes” Heller had been hoping for was for Zoom to expand their maximum possible meeting time beyond...

Fuller Craft Museum is closed, but online offerings abound By Robert Knox Globe Correspondent,Updated January 29, 2021, 11:55 a.m. Email to a Friend Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton recently acquired "Melting Pot II" from self-described potter Robert Lugo. One side of the pot depicts Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.Fuller Craft Museum Responding to the surge in COVID-19 cases last month, Brockton’s Mayor Robert Sullivan returned the city to Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan, effectively requiring indoor gathering spaces such as Fuller Craft Museum to close their doors. The muse...

The law that legalized marijuana in Montana came with another provision: allowing people to retroactively petition courts to erase misdemeanor marijuana convictions. But the requests haven’t come flooding in just yet. As of Friday, the Gallatin County Clerk of District Court’s office had received one expungement petition for a drug-related misdemeanor. However, that petition cited a different law. Beth McLaughlin, administrator for the Montana Supreme Court, said she didn’t have any information on how many petitions courts across the state had received. She said that informatio...