APRIL 24, 2025 -- Since 2006, Gavel to Gavel has tracked state-by-state legislative activity with potential impact on state courts.
Featured State: Montana
- House approves bill to move workers' compensation court to the judicial branch.
- House committee approves bill to censure Bozeman Municipal Judges J. Colleen Herrington and Karolina Tierney. The judges are defendants in a federal lawsuit regarding bail bonds.
- Senate approves bill to create a judicial performance evaluation commission and system.
- Senate rejects House-amended bill to require deliberations and documents of the supreme court be recorded and made available to the public.
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- Iowa, Nevada, Oklahoma,and Wisconsin legislatures advance bills to create or expand business courts/commercial courts in their states.