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.
The Sixth Amendment guarantees that poor people who are accused of a crime and facing jail time have the right to court-appointed counsel. In February 2014 Derek Carlson was in jail facing charges of...
In 2009, the ACLU of Michigan agreed to represent Muslim prisoners in a religious freedom class action in federal court. Although the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) accommodates Jewish inmates by...
Residents of Benton Harbor who claimed the city’s mayor was unresponsive to their needs circulated a petition to have him recalled from office. The county clerk certified the petition in February 2014 and...
For an extra fee, drivers in Michigan are allowed to come up with their own personalized letter/number configurations for their license plates.
Although only a few characters long, “vanity plates”...
Arbor Preparatory High School, a public charter school, requires all students to take Advanced Placement (AP) courses as a condition of graduation. Although there is nothing wrong with that requirement, the...
Inexplicably, when the Michigan legislature repealed the residency requirement for collecting petition...