Plouffe v. State

¶1 The Plaintiff, Douglas Plouffe, brought this action in the District Court for the Seventeenth Judicial District in Blaine County, in which he alleged that Defendants, the State of Montana and several of its agencies, damaged him by tortious conduct, including malicious prosecution and defamation. Defendants filed a motion to dismiss based on principles of res judicata. The District Court granted Defendants’ motion to dismiss, and Plouffe appeals that order. We reverse the order of the District Court.

¶2 The sole issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred when it granted the…