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.
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...
After submitting right to know requests to federal agencies, we submitted similar public records requests to state agencies. Based on unlawfully incomplete responses to our public records requests, we have...
When he was 17 years old, Steven Keefe was sentenced to life without parole for a homicide that he committed as a juvenile. Since his original sentence, the United States Supreme Court has held that...
In April of 2017, Eugene Mitchell and his wife Shayleen Meuchell were in bed with their four-year-old daughter when a party of six bounty hunters from the Montana Civil Assistance Group broke down their...
Luis Soto-Lopez was wrongfully jailed at the Gallatin County Detention Center pursuant to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Hold (also called a “detainer”), despite his ability to post bond for a...
Ana Suda and Mimi Hernandez were illegally detained by C.B.P. Agent O’Neill on May 16, 2018 for speaking Spanish. The suit cites 1) a violation of the Fourth Amendment, because there was no legitimate...