Legal Opinion
Stokes v. Duncan
Montana Supreme Court
Decided March 24, 2015No. DA 14-0483PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice McGRATH
¶1 John Stokes appeals from the District Court’s order of July 23, 2014 granting summary judgment to Greg Duncan and Kathleen Glover. We affirm.
¶2 The issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in granting summary judgment to Duncan and Glover.
BACKGROUND
¶3 In 2008 a jury in a defamation case in Flathead County returned a verdict against John Stokes for approximately $4 million. Stokes appealed the judgment in the defamation case to this Court, and in February 2009 retained attorney Greg Duncan to advise him on how to maintain his appeal of the judgment while discharging the…
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