BILLINGS, Mont., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Supreme Court announced Monday (6/20) that it will hear PPL Montana's appeal of a Montana Supreme Court decision that granted the state ownership of riverbeds underlying certain PPL Montana-owned dams, retroactively going back to statehood. "We welcome the Supreme Court's decision to take up this case because of the broad implications it has for water users throughout the West," said Robert J.

KINGSTON, N.J., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Montana Supreme Court, on December 31, 2009, made Montana the third state allowing physician-assisted suicide. Oregon's voters, in 1994, had created the landmark decision first, surviving legal challenges when the U.S.

Montana becomes the third state in the union, following Oregon and Washington, to allow patients to seek physician-assisted suicide.

Ruling Opens Door to Physician Assisted Suicide WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that state law does not contain any policy restrictions to prevent physicians from legally prescribing lethal drugs to patients.

CHICAGO, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Americans United for Life (AUL) today filed a friend of the court brief before the Montana Supreme Court on behalf of a bipartisan group of 28 Montana Senators and Representatives, arguing there is no right to assisted suicide under the State's constitution. In December 2008, a state district court ruled that, under the Montana Constitution, individuals have a right to suicide, and a right to assistance in committing suicide.