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“The U.S. Supreme Court just unanimously overturned the Montana Supreme Court’s decision requiring PPL and other landowners such as our members to pay rent for the use of Montana’s riverbeds.  The state of Montana and a number of environmental groups had argued that the state owned the riverbeds.

MFBF filed a brief in this case arguing that our members would be irreparably harmed if the Montana Supreme Court’s ruling was allowed to stand and that the state’s claim was an unconstitutional taking of their property.  This is a major victory in defense of the property rights of not only Montana’s farmers and ranchers, but property owners nationwide.”