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Montana AG Orders Gallatin County to Dismiss Rocking R Bar Case
Montana s Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today that he has ordered Gallatin County to dismiss its case against the Rocking R Bar in Bozeman.
The Attorney General has supervisory powers regarding legal matters involving counties in the state, and Knudsen directed County Attorney Marty Lambert to promptly dismiss
Gallatin City-County Board of Health and Health Officer Matt Kelley v. Rocking R Bar. The Rocking R was currently being sued by Gallatin County for not closing at 10 p.m. as mandated by the Health Department s COVID-19 directives.
“The ten o’clock closure rule defies commonsense, said Attorney General Knudsen. This type of government overreach is devastating to Montana workers and small businesses.
The Rocking R Bar in Bozeman, Mont., Nov. 17, 2020.
Montana’s Attorney General Thursday ordered the Gallatin County Attorney to dismiss a case against a Bozeman bar that intentionally ignored a health order curfew and warning.
A district court judge in December ruled that the Rocking R Bar must comply with Gallatin County’s Nov. 6 health order, which requires bars, tasting rooms, distilleries, casinos and restaurants to close at 10 p.m. in an effort to flatten the surge of COVID-19 cases, keep hospital beds open and improve contact tracing.
Attorney General Austin Knudsen Thursday ordered Gallatin County’s attorney to dismiss the case.
County fights back against Montana AG order to drop Rocking R Bar case
MTN NEWS
By: Annie Johnson - MTN News
Posted at 6:26 PM, Jan 14, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-14 20:27:29-05
(UPDATE) Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert, who represents the Gallatin City-County Board of Health and Health Officer Matt Kelley, released the following message on Thursday afternoon:
The State of Montana is not a party to the R Bar case. The Attorney General may lack authority to âorder and directâ a county attorney to dismiss a case where a local government entity, and not the State of Montana, is the plaintiff.