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 2021 Legal Docket details our legal cases and actions taken in 2020-2021.
Claire Mercer is a transgender woman who was sentenced to serve time in the Mason County Jail in March 2019. When jail officials learned she was transgender, they immediately placed her in solitary confinement, not because there had been threats to her safety, but because the jail ha
Ahmed Chebli is a United States citizen of Lebanese descent and father of two young children who lives in Dearborn. In 2018 FBI agents approached him, suggested that he knew people who were involved in terrorist activity, and demanded that he become a government informant against peo
Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency relied on a flawed computer program to falsely accuse thousands of citizens of insurance fraud and wrongfully eliminate their unemployment benefits, all the while providing little recourse for them to challenge these determinations and sending
In June 2020, after learning that the City of Detroit displaced more than 40 unhoused individuals from encampments around the city, the ACLU of Michigan along with the National Law Center on Homeless and Poverty, Street Democracy, and students from Street Medicine units at Wayne State
For many lesbian couples, assisted reproductive technology allows one mom to be the genetic parent and the other mom to carry and give birth to the child. Kyresha LeFever and Lanesha Matthews were one such couple. However, when the couple split up and their custody case went to cour
The Greyhound bus company allows federal agents from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to board its buses and ask passengers for their “papers” even when CBP has no warrant, no probable cause, and no specific person they’re looking for. In one widely publicized incident, CBP boarde