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.
This voting rights case is based upon First Amendment rights to speak through being able to run for office without undue burdens imposed by the State and to associate through being able to vote for the...
In November 2007, the ACLU of Montana and a medical marijuana advocacy group, Patients and Families United, filed an amicus in this case before the Montana Supreme Court. We claimed that a probationary...
Co-operating Attorney, Kim Wilson, from Reynolds, Motl and Sherwood of Helena, and Betsy Griffing represented Plaintiffs on appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, claiming that the Plaintiffs had...
An individual, "T.L.S.," had been involuntary committed to state facilities since 1992, but in 2003, state officials concluded that TLS had made enough progress so as to not be classified as “seriously...
