Legal Opinion
Mead v. McKittrick
Montana Supreme Court
Decided October 21, 1986No. 85-523PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Turnage
June Mead appeals from an order of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, granting defendants’ motions to dismiss Mead’s wrongful discharge suit.
We affirm.
June Mead raises two issues for our review:
1. Is a District Court judge immune, under Section 2-9-112(2), MCA, from suit for the summary discharge of his predecessor’s personal secretary?
2. Are the county and county commissioners immune, under Section 2-9-112(1), MCA, from a suit arising from an act of the judiciary?
June Mead began working for Cascade County as a deputy clerk in the Clerk of Court’s office in 1976. In 1979,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Pierson v. RaySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Cynthia A. Forrester v. Judge Howard Lee WhiteCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- Knutson v. StateMontana Supreme Court · 1984
- Board of Commissioners v. Eleventh Judicial District CourtMontana Supreme Court · 1979
- Holly v. PreussMontana Supreme Court · 1977
3Cited by13 opinions
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- Hartsoe v. ChristopherMontana Supreme Court · 2013
- John Hartsoe v. C.B. McNeilMontana Supreme Court · 2012
- Butte-Silver Bow Local Government v. OlsenMontana Supreme Court · 1987
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