The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan applauded a state appeals court decision today declaring the City of Wyoming’s ordinance that bans medical marijuana “void and unenforceable” because it directly violates the state’s Medical Marihuana Act.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and University of Michigan Innocence Clinic is pleased that the Michigan Supreme Court ordered a new trial yesterday for a Detroit woman who was convicted of a felony for being too poor to pay more than $1,100 a month in child support.
DETROIT—The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a class-action lawsuit today in state court on behalf of eight students who represent nearly 1,000 children attending K-12 public schools in Highland Park, Mich.
In a landmark decision today that effectively strikes down Michigan’s sentencing scheme, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for children under the age of 18 to be sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison without any chance of parole.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan lauded a report released today by the Governor’s Indigent Defense Advisory Commission that outlines comprehensive solutions to the state’s broken system for providing attorneys to poor people accused of crimes.
LANSING, Mich. – In an effort to protect women’s health care in Michigan, doctors, health care professionals and reproductive rights advocates denounced a package of bills today that would effectively make safe abortion services inaccessible in the state.