Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of attorneys general in calling on the firms to stop their unlawful discriminatory employment practices or they will be held accountable by the attorneys general. Well-documented and data-backed reports outline [...]
HELENA – A Ludlow man was found guilty of deliberate homicide for assisting in the murder of Isaac Carrier following a four-day jury trial which ended Wednesday in Prairie County District Court, Attorney General Knudsen announced today. On January 23, [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, in an amicus brief filed today, led a coalition of 18 other state attorneys general in an effort to halt Maryland county’s unconstitutional gun bans in places of public assembly and in the [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a 16-state coalition of attorneys general in sounding the alarm on the China-founded, fast-fashion retailer SHEIN’s business practices – which includes reports of forced labor – and their potential Initial Public Offering [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen called on a federal appeals board to overturn a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) final decision that rubber stamped a controversial and locally opposed change of use permit to allow bison grazing on [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of nine attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to take up the social-media censorship case of O’Handley v. Weber and protect Americans’ right to [...]
HELENA – A Butte man pleaded guilty in Gallatin County District Court to multiple charges after he shot at law enforcement who arrived at the scene where he was breaking windows and setting his apartment on fire, Attorney General Austin [...]
HELENA – A West Yellowstone woman who pleaded guilty in May in Gallatin County District Court to multiple charges following the death of her grandson, including deliberate homicide, was handed a life sentence in accordance with the plea agreement made [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today anti-drug task forces in Montana have already seized more fentanyl in the first half of the year than they did in 2022, which blasted previous records. He also marked Fentanyl Prevention [...]
HELENA – The State of Montana, through its Attorney General Austin Knudsen, called on a federal judge today to keep Montana’s law banning TikTok in the state in effect while the case proceeds in federal court, citing well-documented concerns over [...]