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State ordered to pay more than $500K to ACLU of Montana

by KEILA SZPALLER Daily Montanan
| April 15, 2026 12:00 AM

The state of Montana has been ordered to pay more than $500,000 to the ACLU of Montana and its legal team in a lawsuit to protect the rights of people who are transgender after the State of Montana repeatedly defied court orders, a judge said.

In an order granting the award, Yellowstone County District Court Judge Colette Davies said the State of Montana defied compliance with an earlier judge’s order, prolonged litigation unnecessarily, and “repetitively advanced positions” the court had already rejected.

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