HELENA – A federal judge today issued a permanent injunction against President Biden’s so-called “pause” on federal oil and gas leasing and drilling permits in 13 plaintiff states, including Montana, agreeing with Attorney General Austin Knudsen that the policy violated the Mineral [...]

Montana is one of dozens of states that have reached an agreement in principle with opioid maker Endo International PLC, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. It resolves allegations that the Ireland-based drugmaker boosted opioid sales using deceptive marketing that [...]

Anti-drug task forces in Montana are on pace to triple last year’s record-shattering fentanyl seizures and have already taken 58 times more fentanyl off the streets this year than in all of 2019, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Fentanyl-linked [...]

In response to the state Supreme Court’s self-serving 5-2 decision to uphold a lower court ruling that Montanans do not have the right to decide how they elect their Supreme Court justices, Attorney General Knudsen issued the following statement: “Opinions [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is continuing to fight the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “unprecedented masking mandate regulating every breath of millions of Americans." The CDC issued the mandate days after President Biden’s inauguration. [...]

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced the formation of a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force with 49 other states that is investigating and will take legal action against the telecommunications companies responsible for bringing a majority of foreign robocalls [...]

HELENA – In response to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) final decision today granting the American Prairie Reserve a permit change to allow bison grazing in Phillips County, Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement: “After shutting [...]

HELENA– Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 16 other state attorneys general joined a lawsuit today against the Biden administration’s rules that threaten the long-held American tradition of private firearms assembly and put the livelihood of thousands of Americans at risk. [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 21 other state attorneys general filed a lawsuit today against the Biden administration’s new guidance that threatens to withhold federal nutritional assistance for schools and programs that receive federal nutritional assistance.  In [...]

HELENA - Montana law enforcement agencies reported 650 missing indigenous persons cases last year and as of May 30 just one percent of those cases are still active, new data from the Montana Department of Justice show. The majority of [...]