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 has a long and troubled history of denying Native Americans the right to vote, trying to limit their ability to vote and diminishing their votes’ impact.
For many years these efforts were...
The ACLU of Montana sued Missoula County on Sept. 12, 2012 on behalf of three named prisoners and class of similarly situated prisoners over discriminatory treatment. Female prisoners and juvenile prisoners...
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Montana Department of Corrections and officials at the Montana Women’s Prison in September 2012 over illegal and discriminatory treatment of women’s prisoners....
Robert Yarlott is indigent. Yet, upon criminal sentencing, was expected to pay for his court fines, fees, surcharges, costs of assigned counsel, jury service and prosecution costs. Although Yarlott had been...
