The ACLU of Michigan files lawsuits that impact people’s rights by setting a legal precedent, or affecting the policies and actions of public officials. Our current Fall 2020 Legal Docket details our legal cases and actions taken in 2019-2020.
After the State of Michigan stripped the residents of Flint of their ability to elect local representatives, state-appointed offic
The people of Flint are charged the highest water rates in the country even though the water flowing through their pipes was unsafe to drink and 40 percent of residents live below the poverty line.
For nearly fifty years, Michigan’s Constitution has strictly prohibited taxpayer funding of private and religious schools.
In November 2018 the ACLU of Michigan filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Sixth Circuit supporting a group of students in Detroit who are suing the state over its lack of support for literacy in the public schools.
Benton Harbor, Michigan has a population that is 85 percent African American, and the poverty rate is 48 percent. By 2011 the school district’s debt had ballooned to $18 million. In 2018 Dr.
In October 2016, we filed a major class action lawsuit against the State of Michigan and local school districts over the systemic failure to provide an adequa