Concerned that indigent defendants in the Detroit suburb of Eastpointe are being tossed into “debtors’ prison” for their inability to pay court fees and fines, the ACLU of Michigan today filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information related to Eastpointe law enforcement.
Dan Korobkin, deputy legal director for the ACLU of Michigan, today applauded a federal appeals court for upholding an earlier ruling that Livingston County Jail officials violated the Constitution by refusing to give inmates letters from ACLU attorneys.
When marchers take to the streets on Friday for a mass walk from Detroit to Flint to call for better access to clean water, the ACLU of Michigan heaquarters in Detroit will be one of the stops along the way.
A federal district court today dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan on behalf of a pregnant woman who was denied appropriate medical treatment because of the hospital's religious directives.
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality, social--justice proponents are considering some of the best ways to honor andcommemorate the ruling while also keeping supporters energized for the work ahead.
Forty-five years after the American Civil Liberties Union filed the first-ever freedom-to-marry lawsuit in 1970, the US Supreme Court on June 26, 2015, struck down discriminatory marriage bans in Michigan and three other states, its historic decision securing marriage equality for gay and lesbian