Court Opinion

ID: 9512311
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:13:11.984492+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:21.283537
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE LEAPHART,
concurring.
¶38 I concur in the Court’s resolution of Issue One. As to Issue Two, like the Court, I affirm the District Court’s rejection of the constitutional challenge. However, I would do so based upon the Employees’ failure to make a plain showing of unconstitutionality. As I pointed out in my concurrence in Oberson v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2007 MT 293, ¶¶ 33-37, 339 Mont. 519, 171 P.3d 715 (Leaphart, J., concurring), the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard, which the Court invokes herein, is an absurd standard of decision for a question of constitutional law.