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.
Public Act 436 gives unelected “emergency managers” sweeping, far-reaching powers to displace or in some cases even dissolve local governments and school districts. A coalition of civil rights groups...
In 2010, the ACLU of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Detroit Police Department’s 2008 raid of a fundraising event at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit.
During the raid more...
In March 2015, the ACLU of Michigan received a complaint that the McBain public school system in northern Michigan was seeking to hire a new superintendent with a “strong Christian background and philosophy...
In June 2013 Joe Marogil was passing out leaflets at the Fulton Street Farmers Market in Grand Rapids about upcoming ACLU “Know Your Rights” events. The market director told him to leave and threatened to...