Federal Court

Efforts are underway in state and federal courts to restore Green Party of Montana candidates to the state’s general election ballot just days after a state judge disqualified them.

A U.S. judge ordered federal protections restored for grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains on Monday, a move that blocks the first grizzly hunts planned in the Lower 48 states in almost three decades

Earthjustice, the environmental group whose motto is ‘The Earth Needs a Good Lawyer’, sent two attorneys to the Russell Courthouse in Missoula on Thursday to argue before federal Judge Dana Christensen to stop the upcoming grizzly bear hunt in Wyoming.

Whether the Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bears will remain delisted from the Endangered Species Act and thus be hunted in the west will be decided on Thursday before Federal Judge Dana Christensen

Montana will print ballots for the November elections next Thursday, but as of now, the Montana Green Party is not set to be on those ballots.

On Wednesday morning, a federal jury in Billings found 35 year-old Terrence Tyrell Edwards of Missoula guilty on 10 counts of sex trafficking.

Back in 1996, the United States Congress passed a law called the Communications Decency Act.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas, of Billings, has been appointed to the federal court's executive committee, which develops policy for the nation's court system. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit...

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox is part of an ongoing legal battle with the Obama administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, in what many states are alleging is an overreach in their authority over water quality.

Senator Steve Daines commented on the ruling made by a federal appeals court concerning the NSA's telephone data collection program. Daines says these actions by the NSA have been going on for too long.