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Date Created: 2023-12-27 22:06:26.199422+00
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GIGINAL                                          12/27/2023

           IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA
                                                                                           Case Number: DA 23-0575

                                        DA 23-0575

RIKKI HELD; LANDER B., by and through his
guardian Sara Busse; BADGE B., by and through
his guardian Sara Busse; SARIEL SANDOVAL;
KIAN T., by and through his guardian Todd
Tanner; GEORGIANNA FISCHER; KATHRYN
GRACE GIBSON-SNYDER; EVA L., by and
through her guardian Mark Lighthiser; MIKA K.,
by and through his guardian Rachel Kantor;                               FILL-J
OLIVIA VESOVICH; JEFFREY K., by and
through his guardian Laura King; NATHANIEL                                DEC 2 7 2023
                                                                       Bowen Oreer.wooa
K., by and through his guardian Laura King;                          Clerk of Soo            urt
                                                                        State of :Cno nta na
CLAIRE VLASES; RUBY D., by and through her
guardian Shane Doyle; LILIAN D., by and through
her guardian Shane Doyle; TALEAH
                                                                    ORDER
HERNANDEZ,

            Plaintiffs and Appellees,

      v.

STATE OF MONTANA, GOVERNOR GREG
GIANFORTE, MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, MONTANA
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
AND CONSERVATION, and MONTANA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,

            Defendants and Appellants.

       Before the Court is a document submitted to the Clerk of Court by Byron L.
Trackwell, containing Mr. Trackwell's December 27, 2023 letter to counsel for the Plaintiffs
in this matter. Mr. Trackwell, who previously was granted leave to participate in this appeal
as an amicus curiae, requests that his letter, which responds to the Plaintiffs' September 29,
2023 demand letter and comments to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality
regarding DEQ's preliminary determination on a permit application, be filed "to this
MONTANA.GOV Official State Website for this subject case."
       This Court's Rules of Appellate Procedure provide allowance for a brief of an amicus
curiae to be filed in a pending appeal upon leave of the supreme court granted on motion. M.
R. App. P. 12(7). In accordance with that Rule, Mr. Trackwell obtained leave of Court
November 22, 2023, and filed his amicus brief the same date. The Rule does not permit
multiple filings. His current tendered filing is not a brief to this Court but correspondence to
a party. The document is not appropriate for filing in the Court's docket in this appeal.
       IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Mr. Trackwell's request for filing is DENIED.
The Clerk is directed to return the original and eight copies of the referenced document to
Mr. Trackwell.
       The Clerk shall give notice of this Order to Byron L. Trackwell and to all counsel of
record.
       Dated this    / day of December, 2023.

                                                   For the Court,

                                                   By                  (,./ 4
                                                            Justice

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