The Workers' Compensation Court does not have the authority to decide the constitutionality of provisions of work-related injury disclosure procedures, the Montana justices ruled.
In Thompson v. State, DA 06-0365, 08/17/2007, the state Supreme Court ruled that the workers' compensation court only had the authority to decide the issues that the statute authorizes it to.
"Taken together, these statutes authorize the WCC to issue declaratory rulings only in the context of a dispute concerning benefits under the Workers' Compensation Act and only as to the applicability of any statutory pr...
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