BATES v. NEVA

No. DA 13-0012.

308 P.3d 114 (2013)

2013 MT 246

Jim BATES, Petitioner/Respondent and Appellee, v. Laura Lee NEVA, Respondent/Charging Party and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided September 3, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For Appellant: Patricia D. Peterman , Michael F. McGuinness ; Patten, Peterman, Bekkedahl & Green, PLLC; Billings, Montana.

For Appellee: Jim Bates , self-represented; Fishtail, Montana.


Justice JIM RICE delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 Appellant Laura Lee Neva (Neva) alleges that Appellee Jim Bates (Bates) violated Montana's Human Rights Act (the Act) by halting necessary repairs to the commercial building she rented from him because she rebuffed his sexual advances. Section 49-2-304, MCA (the Public Accommodation Provision), makes it unlawful for a place of public accommodation to deny to a person its "services, goods, facilities, advantages...

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