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DETROIT – A Macomb County Circuit Court judge dismissed a bioterrorism charge late Wednesday against an HIV-positive man accused of biting his neighbor. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan urged the court to drop the charges in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in March.
Detroit – In a landmark decision today, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for juvenile offenders who did not commit homicide to be sentenced to life in prison without any chance of parole.
Lansing – In an order issued today, the Michigan Supreme Court unanimously rejected the State of Michigan’s attempts to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union seeking to fix Michigan’s system for providing defense to poor people in criminal cases.
Ann Arbor, MI — The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is gravely concerned by plans to evict about 20 residents of the local homeless encampment Camp Take Notice from public land near Interstate I-94 and Ann Arbor-Saline Road.
DETROIT – Patents on genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer are invalid, ruled a New York federal court yesterday.
Score another victory for the good guys – or in this case, Lewis and Jean Lowden, an army veteran and his late wife challenged their 2007 arrest for driving displaying protest signs in the funeral procession of a close friend who was killed in Iraq.