( January 8, 2026, 12:34 PM EST) -- HELENA, Mont. — Concluding that the state of Montana did not meet the criteria necessary to seek the “extraordinary remedy” of a writ of supervisory control, the Montana Supreme Court denied the state’s petition that it filed in response to a trial court’s order compelling it to comply with a conservationist organization’s requests for production (RFPs) of documents related to the passage of a state law over single-use plastics....