The Legal Program handles cases that involve infringements upon constitutional rights and civil liberties. We represent individuals or classes of individuals whose cases will either serve to create new precedent or will result in general system-wide reform in favor of protecting and defending civil liberties.
In other situations, we may not file a lawsuit, but may write letters calling for changes or reforms.
Pondera County, located in the southern half of the Blackfeet Nation, refused to offer a satellite in-person voting site on the reservation. The County offered in person only voting between 60 to 80 miles away for Blackfeet Nation residents in the county seat of Conrad, Montana.
Ryan Morris and Troy Nelson falsely claimed in front of Cascade County District Judge Greg Pinski that they were Veterans.
This emergency petition calls on the Montana Supreme Court to release non-dangerous prisoners with disabilities and others, limit the number of people taken and in custody, require lower courts to suspend minor infration detentions, and encourage prosecutors and police to exercise discretion due
Montana’s Ballot Interference Prevention Act is unconstitutional.
The ACLU of Montana, Native American Rights Fund and ACLU's lawsuit challenges a Montana law that severely restricts Native Americans’ access to the ballot.
After submitting right to know requests to federal agencies, we submitted similar public records requests to state agencies.
When he was 17 years old, Steven Keefe was sentenced to life without parole for a homicide that he committed as a juvenile.