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 2024 Legal Docket details our legal cases and actions taken in 2023-2024.
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Jan 12, 2023
Assisted Reproductive Technology
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...
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Jan 12, 2023
Immigrant Justice Partnership
When President Trump was elected, he unleashed a deportation force, terrorizing immigrant communities and ripping families apart. In 2017 the ACLU and the Michigan Immigrant...
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Jan 12, 2023
Juveniles With “Parolable” Life Sentences
Criminal Legal Reform
Status: Pending
For over a decade, the ACLU of Michigan has fought against Michigan’s cruel policy of allowing children to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. There is a second...
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Jan 12, 2023
Racial Justice Protests in Chelsea
In the summer of 2020 a group of high school students formed a group called Anti-Racist Chelsea Youth and held a non-disruptive march in downtown Chelsea to support the Black Lives...
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Jan 12, 2023
Lawyer’s Right to Hold Press Conference
Law enforcement officers from a task force that included federal and state officers entered the Detroit home of 20-year-old Terrance Kellom to arrest him. By the end of the encounter, Kellom had...
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Jan 12, 2023
Legal Hurdles to Holding Law Enforcement Accountable
College student James King was walking down the street in Grand Rapids when two men stopped him, demanded to know his name, and took his wallet. Thinking he was being mugged, Mr....