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The women's ACLU lawyers say O'Neill should have let them go as soon as they identified themselves as U.S. citizens, but he instead detained them in violation of the Fourth Amendment barring unreasonable searches and seizures.

Montana State University announced on Tuesday that the school has settled with a former student following a claim of sexual harassment by a former music professor.

MTN News reports the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is currently facing a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Montana regarding inmate Agustin Ramon at the Lincoln County Detention Center. Ramon holds dual citizen to France and Mexico...

As anticipated, KTVQ and The Billings Gazette have filed to intervene in a legal action by three police officers seeking to keep their names out of the news after being disciplined for their sexual encounters with a former BPD civilian employee on city property...

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced this week 1 $13.5 million settlement with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BIPI).

Four men from Roundup have filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America and Montana.  KTVQ.com reports that, according to the complaint, the Boy Scouts were negligent in putting Calvin Malone in a position of power.  The plaintiffs state that Malone, while scoutmaster, sexually abused them, and further alleges that the boy scouts noticed issues and possible allegations of assaults, but did no

Early this week, Missoula Judge Dana Christensen ruled that the U.S. Forest Service has the authority to exclude snowmobiles from areas recommended for wilderness.

The mother of a student athlete at Billings West High School– suspended for violating the school’s code of conduct– has alleged racial discrimination in a lawsuit against School District 2 after her son attended a house party where alcohol was present...

Missoula County taxpayers will pay landowners in a failed Grant Creek area subdivision called Gleneagle a total of $2,265,000 and receive the building lots in return.

A former St. Vincent Healthcare employee is suing the hospital for disability discrimination, age discrimination and wrongful termination.  U.S. District Judge Susan Watters ruled last Friday that the suit can proceed to trial in Billings’ federal court...