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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Apr 15, 2016
Fair Chance Ordinance for Detroit
Workplace Rights
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...
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Apr 14, 2016
The Pledge of Allegiance
Racial Justice
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...
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Apr 12, 2016
Censorship of Toni Morrison
Student Rights
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...
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Mar 31, 2016
Abuse at Huron Valley Women’s Prison
Women's Rights
In 2014 the ACLU of Michigan began to receive extremely disturbing reports of mentally ill inmates being mistreated at Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the only women’s prison in Michigan.
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Feb 24, 2016
Poisoned Families Should Not Be Deported
Flint Water Crisis
Status: Won
When toxic, lead-laced water flowed through the pipes in Flint, immigrant families were among the most severely impacted.
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Feb 4, 2016
Slavery Reenactment Activity Traumatizes Children
Racial Justice
YMCA camps in Jackson, Michigan featured an activity for elementary school students called “Underground Railroad.” The intended purpose of the activity was to educate children about slavery, and to that...