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No. 03-238

                  IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA

                                       2004 MT 390A

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CAROL SNETSINGER, NANCY SIEGEL,                           )
CARLA GRAYSON, ADRIANNE NEFF, and                         )
PRIDE, INC., a Montana Non-Profit Corporation,            )
                                                          )
              Plaintiffs and Appellants,                  )
                                                          )
       v.                                                 )
                                                          )
MONTANA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, STATE OF                       )      ORDER
MONTANA, RICHARD CROFTS, in his official                  )
capacity as Commissioner of Higher Education, and         )
MARGIE THOMPSON, ED JASMIN, LYNN                          )
MORRISON-HAMILTON, CHRISTIAN HUR,                         )
JOHN MERCER, RICHARD ROEHM and MARK                       )
SEMMENS, int their official capacities as members         )
of the Board of Regents,                                  )
                                                          )
              Defendants and Respondents.                 )
                    __________________________

       It has come to the Court’s attention that several of the internet sites cited within the
footnotes in the Special Concurrence in this case are difficult to access. Consequently, we
amend the Special Concurrence to include internet sites that are easier to access should the
reader care to view the documents from which some of the statistical information was taken.
The amended footnotes are as follows:
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               U.S. Census Bureau, United States Census 2000, Married- Couple
       and Unmarried-Partner Households: 2000 4 (February 2003), at http://www.
       census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-5.pdf; David Smith and Gary Gates, Gay and

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      Lesbian Families in the United States: Same-Sex Unmarried Partner
      Households 2 (August 2001), at http://www.hrc.org/Content/ContentGroups/
      Publications1/census.pdf (hereinafter Smith).
             4
                See Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Employers that Offer
      Domestic Partner Health Benefits, at http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?
      Section=Work_Life (then access through “Domestic Partner Benefits” and
      “quick lists”).
             9
              National Center for Health Statistics, Table 3: Provisional Number
      of Marriages and Divorces, at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/
      49_06_12_03.pdf and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr51/
      51_10_12_03.pdf.

Therefore,
      IT IS ORDERED that the Special Concurrence in this case is amended as indicated.
      IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court give notice of this Order to
counsel of record, to West Group and to the Montana State Law Library.
      DATED this ____ day of January, 2005.

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