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- 1 2 "Supreme Court of Montana Biographies" . Retrieved August 23, 2013.
- 1 2 "Justice Patricia O'Brien Cotter". Montana Supreme Court. 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ 25 Mont. Law. 8
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