On February 16, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Lovell heard Lair v Murray, cv12-12-H, over Montana’s ban on independent expenditures about candidates for state office. According to this article, even though the Montana law seems to violate Citizens United v FEC, Judge Lovell is disinclined to enjoin the law. That is because the same group of plaintiffs in this case had already lost on that same issue last month in the Montana Supreme Court.