Court Opinion

ID: 9510108
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:52:43.572579+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:57.058886
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE TRIEWEILER
specially concurring.
I concur with the result of the majority opinion. However, consistent with my dissenting opinion in Stratemeyer v. MACO Workers’ Compensation Trust (1993), 259 Mont. 147, 155, 855 P.2d 506, 511, I would apply middle-tier scrutiny to any legislative classification which denies workers’ compensation benefits to distinct classes of injured employees.
Nevertheless, applying middle-tier scrutiny to the distinction alleged in this case, I would arrive at the same conclusion that the majority has reached pursuant to the rational basis test.
For these reasons, I specially concur with the majority opinion.