United States Ninth Circuit

The Montana district court did not exceed it statutory or inherent authority by issuing a Standing Order that required the filing of a report of sentence which was to be sent to the United States Sentencing Commission to satisfy a reporting requirement that Congress imposed on the courts.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/09/2004
• Decided 07/23/2004
• Published 07/23/2004

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge., Before GRABER and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven L. Lane,United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellant., Robert S. Bennett, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC, for the amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony R. Gallagher, Federal Defender of Montana, Great Falls, MT, for the defendant-appellee.