Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-03-23 16:04:54.191519+00
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ORIGINAL
                                                                                         03/23/2023

            IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA                             Case Number: OP 23-0183

                                        OP 23-0183

                                                                             FILE
BOONE JEFFERSON BLOCK,
                                                                              MAR 2 3 2023
                                                                            Bowen Greenwood
             Petitioner,                                                  Clerk of Supreme Court
                                                                             State of Montana

       v.
                                                                   ORDER
MONTANA EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT, GALLATIN COUNTY,
HON. JOHN C. BROWN, Presiding,

              Respondent.

       Petitioner Boone Jefferson Block seeks a writ of supervisory control over the
Montana Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Gallatin County, in its Consolidated Cause
Nos. DV-19-1413C and DR-19-4888A. Block asserts that the District Court has not ruled
upon two pending motions in the underlying litigation. These pending motions include a
request for a parenting hearing filed on October 14, 2020, and a motion to refer the
parenting matter to the Standing Master, which was fully briefed as of April 20, 2022.
Block further asserts that he brought the District Court's attention to the pending matters
in accordance with local rules on November 3, 2022, but the District Court has taken no
further action on the pending motion.
       We have reviewed a copy of the District Court's case register for these consolidated
matters. It does not appear that the District Court has taken any action on the motions
which are the subject of Block's petition and nothing has been filed in either case since
April 25, 2022.
       Therefore, this Court deems it appropriate to obtain a summary response frorn the
District Court. In accordance with M. R. App. P. 14(7),
       IT IS ORDERED that the Eighteenth Judicial District Court is granted thirty days
from the date of this order in which to prepare, file, and serve a response to the petition for
writ of supervisory control in Consolidated Cause Nos. DV-19-1413C and DR-19-4888A.
       The Clerk is directed to provide immediate notice of this Order to counsel for
Petitioner, all counsel of record in the Eighteenth Judicial District Court Consolidated
Cause Nos. DV-19-1413C and DR-19-4888A, and to the Honorable John C. Brown,
presiding District Judge.
       DATED this 06/81ay of March, 2023.

                                                   For the Court,

                                                   By     94 A4 Alt.....
                                                                     Justice

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