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.
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...
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...
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...
In 2017 the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit challenging Michigan’s practice of permitting state-funded child placement agencies to reject qualified same-sex couples based on the...