Spiker Communications, Inc. v. State

¶1 Appellant Spiker Communications, Inc. (Spiker) appeals from the order of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, granting Respondent State of Montana’s motion for change of venue and ordering venue moved to the First Judicial District Court, Lewis and Clark County. We reverse and remand.

¶2 Spiker raises the following issues on appeal:

¶3 1. Did the District Court err in granting the State’s request for change of venue when the State failed to object to venue in its first filing in the District Court?

¶4 2. Did the District Court err in changing venue from Spiker’s county of…