Legal Opinion
Mattson v. Montana Power Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Decided December 27, 2012No. DA 11-0413PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
¶1 Plaintiffs are a group of landowners or former landowners with properties on the shores of Flathead Lake and a portion of the upper Flathead River (Landowners). They commenced the instant action in 1999 in the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County, against Montana Power Company (MPC) and MPC’s successor, PPL Montana, LLC (PPLM).
¶2 The present appeal is the third in the course of this litigation. In Mattson v. Mont. Power Co., 2002 MT 113, 309 Mont. 506, 48 P.3d 34 (Mattson I), this Court upheld the District Court’s denial of PPLM’s motion to substitute the District Court judge.…
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