ACLU of Montana

A lawsuit over Montana’s first-of-its-kind ban on TikTok is working its way toward a hearing this fall.

Advocates in Montana are celebrating the United States Supreme Court ruling to uphold the federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).

Groups suing the state over restrictions barring birth certificate amendments are asking a district court to hold the state health department in civil contempt.

More than two dozen health care providers, mental health advocates and Medicaid patients are arguing against a proposed state rule that would further restrict state coverage of abortion. One organization spoke in support of the rule during a public hearing on Thursday.

The state health department says it will reinstate a rule that bars transgender Montanans from updating the gender markers on their birth certificates. The Montana Supreme Court is now involved in the latest step in a murky legal fight over the policy.

Montana lawmakers are considering a package of bills to change the state’s response to a decade of growth in child abuse and neglect cases. Montana saw the fastest increase of children in foster care of any state in the nation between 2010 and 2019, according to the Annie. E. Casey Foundation.

Montana’s high court has reinstated a block on two laws regulating elections originally passed in 2021 that eliminated same-day voter registration and restricted acceptable forms of voter ID.

A district court judge has ordered the state health department to rescind a rule that bars transgender residents from amending the gender marker their birth certificates. The health department is defying that order.

The state health department has enacted an emergency rule to restrict transgender Montanans from amending the gender marker on their birth certificates. The move clashes with a court order that blocks a new law aimed at regulating the process.

The new law requires transgender Montanans undergo and provide proof of gender-affirming surgery in court in order to amend a birth certificate.