Letters to the editor April 30

Court rulings

In his recent letter to the editor, Flathead area car dealer, Don ‘K’ Kaltschmidt implores voters to rein in “Montana’s overreaching courts,” and he decries “Montana’s courts giv[ing] special treatment to liberal Democrats and violat[ing] the constitution against conservative Republicans.” 

But Kaltschmidt was singing a different tune in 2020. That is the year the Montana Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict in Kaltschmidt’s favor. After he had been defrauded out of $250,000, Kaltschmidt did what all Montanans have a right to do: He sought justice in a courtroom. He won. The losing party appealed, and the court let the jury’s decision stand.