L.B. EX REL. D.B. v. UNITED STATES

OP 21-0395.

515 P.3d 818 (2022)

2022 MT 166

L.B. individually and on behalf of D.B., a Minor, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dana Bullcoming, agent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs sued in his individual capacity, Defendants and Appellees.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Submitted: April 19, 2022.

Decided: August 16, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For Appellant: Timothy M. Bechtold (argued), Bechtold Law Firm PLLC, Missoula, Montana, John Heenan , Heenan & Cook, Billings, Montana.

For Appellees: Jesse Laslovich , U.S. Attorney, Victoria L. Francis , Timothy A. Tatarka (argued), Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Billings, Montana.

For Amici National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, Sovereign Bodies Institute, Fort Belknap Indian Community and Blackfeet Nation: April Youpee-Roll (argued), Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California, Mary Katherine Nagle , Pipestem and Nagle Law, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jennifer Weddle , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Denver, Colorado.

For Amici Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and Government Accountability Organizations: Caitlin Boland Aarab , Boland Aarab PLLP, Great Falls, Montana, Devi Rao , Megha Ram , Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Washington, District of Columbia.

For Amici Montana Association of Counties and Montana League of Cities and Towns: Natasha Prinzing Jones (argued), Tracey Neighbor Johnson , Thomas J. Leonard , Boone Karlberg P.C., Missoula, Montana.

For Amici American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Montana Foundation, Inc.: Alex H. Rate , ACLU of Montana Foundation, Inc., Missoula, Montana, Steven S. Sparling , Jeffrey L. Braun , Chase Mechanick , Julia A. Quigley , Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, New York, Sandra S. Park , Linda S. Morris , Stephen L. Pevar , American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York.


¶1 The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has submitted the following state law question to this Court:1

Under Montana law, do law-enforcement officers act outside the scope of their employment, as a matter of law, when they...

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