Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com and to links to briefs from both sides in today's oral arguments at the Idaho Supreme Court in the Land Board case, in which Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden is suing the board - on which…
Here's a news item from the Lewiston Tribune, via The Associated Press: GRANGEVILLE, Idaho (AP) — For erstwhile Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell, home may be where his voters are. Rammell, a veterinarian who ran second in May 25's Republican gubernatorial primary to Gov. C.L.…
An issue that was discussed in the briefs filed with the Idaho Supreme Court on the Land Board case, but that didn't come up specifically during the oral arguments in the case today, is that Idaho's Land Board has charged 2.5 percent of value annually…
Interestingly, Idaho Supreme Court justices allowed Deputy Attorney General Melissa Moody, speaking for Attorney General Lawrence Wasden's side, to give her entire presentation before asking her questions during arguments on the Land Board case today, while they interrupted attorney Merlyn Clark, representing the Land Board,…
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said after today's Supreme Court arguments on the Land Board case, "I thought that both sides represented the case well. The court has a couple of options here; we knew that going in." The court, he said, could either issue…
One light moment in today's Idaho Supreme Court arguments on the Land Board case came when Justice Roger Burdick, who asked by far the most questions today, asked Deputy Attorney General Melissa Moody for an explanation of the new "premium rent" plan for state-owned cabin…
Idaho's state Land Board set rents for state-owned cabin sites for an upcoming 10-year lease period "that it knew would not achieve market rent, and it said so on the record," Deputy Idaho Attorney General Melissa Moody told the Idaho Supreme Court today. "Attorney General…
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