Montana and ten other states filed amicus brief asking the court to strike down Arizona ordinance Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Ninth Circuit ruling and struck down a discriminatory Arizona town sign ordinance. Montana Attorney General Tim Fox applauded the ruling in Reed v. Town of...
Pleads guilty to stealing workers’ compensation benefits for six years Last week, Utah resident Benjie Leroy Christensen plead guilty in Lewis & Clark County District Court to felony theft for receiving Montana workers’ compensation permanent disability payments for six years while he was actually performing construction...
Attorney General Tim Fox, together with state law enforcement partners in every other state, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission, have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against four phony cancer charities and their operators, who allegedly scammed more than $187 million from...
Attorney General Fox announced today that his Office of Consumer Protection—along with the Attorneys General of the other 49 States and the District of Columbia, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Communications Commission—reached settlements with Sprint Corporation (“Sprint”) and Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon...
Today at the Montana WILD Center, Attorney General Tim Fox presented Aila Austin, a fifth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Helena, with the 2015 award for the Montana Bring Our Missing Children Home poster contest. Aila’s colorful poster depicts the anguish families with missing children experience,...
At a ceremony in Helena this morning, the Montana Law Enforcement Academy graduated 49 new officers from 33 different city, county, and state law enforcement agencies around Montana. “With the oath, badge, and uniform come solemn responsibilities,” Attorney General Tim Fox told the graduates today. “As...
Today, the Montana Department of Justice announced a new service that allows the public to be automatically notified by email whenever a sexual or violent offender moves into a zip code of interest to subscribers. This new service is part of Montana’s Sexual or Violent Offender...
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has urged all U.S. Senators to vote for cloture and support S187, the “Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.” The Senate is scheduled to vote on cloture to end debate at noon Eastern Time today. This morning Fox issued the following statement: “Human...
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox and 22 other state attorneys general have sent a letter to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) urging the agency to permanently discard a proposed ban on M855 5.56 x 45mm ammunition. On March 10, ATF shelved...
March 9, 2015 As the legislature continues its work after a mid-session break, a number of legislative priorities from Attorney General Tim Fox and the Montana Department of Justice have already been signed into law by the governor. The others continue to move through the process...