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.
Clayton Matt and Janine Padilla both decided to run for their local school board; both are members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes; and both experienced discrimination while trying to run for...
Charlene Alden, Fred Belly Mule, Holda Roundstone, Danny Sioux, Wilbur Spang, James Walks Along, Phillip Whiteman, Jr., Florence Whiteman, all members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, and Lynette Two Bulls,...
In 1996, the ACLU filed this suit on behalf of residents of the Flathead and Blackfeet Indian Reservations claiming that the 1993 legislative redistricting plan diluted the American Indian voting strength...
The ACLU brought a class action suit on behalf of people incarcerated in Montana State Prison following the 1991 riot. The lawsuit challenged numerous areas of mistreatment of people at the prison,...
