In the Justice Court of Cascade County, Montana, Cause No. CV-2015-2005, Plaintiff stated: "(The Animal Foundation) misused a staggering amount of donor money, about three hundred thousand dollars, resisting a lawful subpoena duces tecum...." This assertion was not disputed by Defendant Animal Foundation of Great Falls. The Animal Foundation is now doing business as the Maclean Animal Adoption Center in Great Falls, Montana.
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On November 22, 2011, the Montana Supreme Court issued an opinion in Case No. OP 11-0548, Animal Foundation of Great Falls, Robert F. James, Jean Faure, and Sara Sexe versus Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, the Honorable Katherine M. Irigoin. The Court found the Animal Foundation board in contempt of court for refusing to produce more than 100,000 documents as ordered by the lower court. It's the only time in Montana history that the entire board of a charitable organization has been held in contempt by the state's highest court. The Court wrote: "The breadth and depth of the decisions by the Foundation to defy the clear and direct orders of the district court were without legal or record-supported factual basis."
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