Former state lawyer sues to invalidate secrecy terms of legal settlement with the state

A former law clerk in Lewistown who settled a 2011 lawsuit against a state district judge sued the governor and attorney general Friday, saying an agreement not to reveal details of the initial case should be voided as unconstitutional.

Britt Long, who lives now in New Jersey, settled a lawsuit with the state in 2013. In that case, she accused then-District Judge Wayne Phillips of Lewistown of striking her on the buttocks with a legal folder and making “unwanted, demeaning advances” toward her, while she worked for him as a law clerk.

In the lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Helena, Long said she wants to write about the initial case, in books or articles, and that a non-disclosure agreement she signed when settling the 2011 lawsuit prevents her from doing so.

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