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.
Evan Stivers is a Michigan State University student who felt he had been mistreated by the East Lansing police officers who arrested him at a party after a noise complaint. Suspecting that his experience...
Each year the City of Detroit provides hundreds of thousands of dollars in development incentives in the form of tax credits, abatements, and/or grants to businesses and housing developers. Many of these...
Marcus Patton is an African American student at Lincoln Park Middle School who refuses to stand for the daily classroom recitation of the pledge of allegiance. After watching seemingly endless media...
In response to calls to remove Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from the Northville Public Schools AP English curriculum, the ACLU of Michigan wrote a letter in April 2016 warning against censorship...