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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Redigan v. Detroit

2:24-cv-13042 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case concerned the right to protest for peace in a Detroit public park. On November 18, 2024, two individuals filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit, the Detroit 360 Conservancy, the Downtown Business Improvement Zone, and two security guards. Represented by the University of Michigan’s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, the plaintiffs alleged that they were illegally restricted by the defendants …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Makowski v. Governor

11-000579-Cz | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: May 19, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2017

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On December 2, 2011, the plaintiff filed a lawsuit in Ingham Circuit Court of Michigan challenging the governor of Michigan’s revocation of the commutation of his sentence. The governor had enforced restrictions on granting commutations, citing COVID-19 as a concern in correctional facilities. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, sued the Governor and the Secretary of State of Michigan.
POLICING
Williams v. City of Detroit

2:21-cv-10827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case involves the use of Facial Recognition Technology (“FRT”) by the Detroit Police Department (“DPD”). The plaintiff, a Black individual, represented by the ACLU of Michigan and the University of Michigan's Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on April 13, 2021. The plaintiff sued the City of Detroit (“City”), the DPD Chief, and an individual DPD detective under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleged that the DPD used a blur…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Michigan v. Attorney General of Michigan

22-000044-MM | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 2022

This case is plaintiffs’ effort to avoid the triggering of Michigan’s dormant anti-abortion law. Michigan’s 1931 felony abortion law, MCL 750.14, criminalizes providing an abortion in almost all circumstances and threatens physicians who perform the procedure with imprisonment. MCL 750.14 was never repealed; it has not been enforced because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade holding that the U.S. Constitution protects the right to get an abortion. The Michigan Supreme Court has yet …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Allen v. Heyns

12-907-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2012

Closed Date: 2016

On August 16, 2012, plaintiffs filed a class action complaint in Ingham County (30th) Circuit Court of Michigan against the Director of the Michigan Department of Corrections, Chair of the Michigan Parole Board, and the Governor of Michigan. The plaintiffs were prisoners in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) who were serving a parolable life sentence and a consecutive term-of-years sentence. They proposed a class of all parolable lifers in MDOC's custody who are servin…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Does v. Snyder

2:12-cv-11194 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 6, 2012

Closed Date: 2018

On March 6, 2012, a group of individuals convicted of sexual offenses prior to 2011 filed this lawsuit in the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Michigan and the director of the Michigan State Police. The plaintiffs alleged that Michigan's 2011 Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) could not be applied to them retroactively. Under SORA, one of the plaintiffs was required to register as a sex offender even though he was not originally convicted of a sex offense. Ano…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cobbs v. Pramstaller

1:07-cv-14644 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2012

On October 30, 2007, a state prison inmate filed a §1983 lawsuit against the Chief Medical Officer of the Michigan Department of Corrections' Bureau of Health Care Services and three unnamed individual members of the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC). The plaintiff, who originally filed pro se but was later represented by the University of Michigan Law School General Clinic, sought declarative, monetary, and injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants acted with deliberate indiffe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lee v. Washtenaw County

2:09-cv-12471 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 23, 2009

Closed Date: 2012

On June 23, 2009, a openly gay former prisoner at Washtenaw County Jail filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Washtenaw County, corrections officers of Washtenaw County Jail, a jail physician, and SecureCare, in the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division. The plaintiff, represented by the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program, asked the court for injunctive relief, a declaration that the plaintiff's rights were violated, compensatory and punitive damages, and attorneys f…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Houle v. Sampson

2:09-cv-10504 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2009

Closed Date: 2010

On February 10, 2009, two parolees filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Michigan Parole Board in the United States Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Detroit Division. The plaintiffs, represented by several public interest organizations, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the Parole Board's conditions of parole were unconstitutional. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the Special Conditions of the parole board in sex of…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Foster-Bey v. Sampson

2:05-cv-71318 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 5, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On April 5, 2005, Michigan inmates, represented by attorneys and students with the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, alleging that changes to the Michigan parole law and policies made in 1992 ("life means life") precluded any meaningful review of their life sentences, thereby effectively converting them into mandatory life sentences in violation of the Ex Post Facto and the Due Process Clauses of t…