Montana Public Interest Research Group v. Johnson

ORDER

MOLLOY, District Judge.

I. Introduction

Plaintiffs Montana Public Interest Research Group, Montana Wildlife Federation, Initiative and Referendum Institute, Verner Bertlesen, Richard Sargent, Tom Shellenberg, and Robert Shepard (“Plaintiffs”) filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 2 for declaratory and injunc-tive relief against Montana Secretary of State Bob Brown and Montana Attorney General Mike McGrath (“Montana”), alleging that Montana’s recently adopted ballot access rules for voter-initiated legislation violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States…