# Butte Community Union v. Lewis

> Montana Supreme Court · January 16, 1986 · 219 Mont. 426

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9508286

## Case

- **Full name:** BUTTE COMMUNITY UNION, Et Al., Plaintiffs and Respondent, v. DAVE LEWIS, as Director of the Montana State Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Defendant and Appellant
- **Court:** Montana Supreme Court
- **Decided:** January 16, 1986
- **Citations:** 219 Mont. 426; 712 P.2d 1309; 1986 Mont. LEXIS 791
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Hunt
- **Judges:** Gulbrandson, Harrison, Hunt, Morrison, Sheehy, Turnage, Weber
- **Cited by:** 57 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Superseded on other grounds by Zempel v. Uninsured Employers' Fund, 282 Mont. 424 (1997).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9508286

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting limited application of general standard of intermediate scrutiny—subject legislative discrimination must be “substantially related to an important government interest”—applicable to Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claims not subject to strict scrutiny and variants…
- holding that Montana's constitution does not create a right to welfare

## Opinion text

MR. JUSTICE HUNT,
concurring:
I concur with Justice Sheehy’s concurrence.

---

Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9508286. Public record. Not legal advice.