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.
Police abuse of forfeiture laws are legend. For years, police in Michigan were able to confiscate cars for suspected "vice" activity based on only a "preponderance of the evidence" that a crime was...
The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit to stop family separation, and in June 2018 a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction, ordering the government to reunite all children with their parents.
In March 2018 the ACLU filed a class action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s mass detention of asylum seekers fleeing persecution,...
The Jackson County Board of Commissioners opens its public meetings with an invocation delivered by one of its nine commissioners. The commissioners all deliver overtly Christian prayers, often in the name...