On March 1, the Montana Green Party and the Montana Secretary of State filed a proposed settlement with the U.S. District Court for Montana. It says that given that the ballot access law for newly-qualifying parties was held unconstitutional on November 8, 2021, in the Green Party’s lawsuit, therefore it is just and fitting that the party should be deemed a qualified party for the 2022 election. The settlement will take effect assuming the judge approves it. Here is the four-page document. Green Party v Jacobsen, 6:18cv-87.

Here is an eight-page document that gives additional information on the basis of the settlement.

Other instances when a ballot access law was held unconstitutional (or enjoined), and which a court then put the plaintiff political party on the ballot, have occurred in Alaska in 1983; Arkansas in 1996 and 2006; Hawaii in 1993; Idaho in 1984; Illinois in 1972 and 1990; Kansas in 1982; Maine this year, Nevada in 1986 and 1992; New Mexico in 1988; Ohio in 1968, 1970, 2007, and 2013; Oklahoma in 1984; and Tennessee in 2012 and 2014.