Montana Supreme Court to hear argument on water rights

The Montana Supreme Court will hear an oral argument on Friday, Sept. 23, at the State Bar of Montana’s Annual Meeting at the Holiday Inn in Great Falls in a case that will decide whether the federal government owns state water rights in certain reservoirs used by private livestock owners.

Professor Michelle Bryan of the University of Montana’s Alexander Blewett III School of Law will give an introduction to the case of BLM v. South Phillips Water Users Group. The introduction will begin in the Holiday Inn Ballroom at 10:15 a.m., with the oral argument to follow at 10:45 a.m. The Holid...