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· 9/26/2023

State v. R. Sneed

Citations

  • 413 Mont. 392
  • 536 P.3d 435
  • 2023 MT 181

Syllabus

Opinion - Published - Justice Gustafson - AFFIRMED

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a management-appointed trustee to a multiemployer pension plan could not be considered a management representative
  • holding that “an employee benefit fund trustee is a fiduciary whose duty to the trust beneficiaries must overcome any loyalty to the interest of the party that appointed him”
  • noting that an express purpose of copyright law was creating uniform federal copyright regulation, thus federal, not state, agency law must be relied upon
  • noting that because the workers’ compensation act “does not define ‘independent contractor,’ ” the common law meaning applies
  • applying the rule to \terms that have accumulated settled meaning under either equity or the common law\
  • applying the rule to “terms that have accumulated settled meaning under either equity or the common law”

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