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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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YWCA Kalamazoo v. Michigan

24-000093-MM | Michigan state trial court

[This summary is temporary while we research the case further.] Represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of Michigan, and private counsel, the Young Women's Christian Association of Kalamzoo ("YWCA") filed a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion and related care. 
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Northland Family Planning Center v. Nessel

24-000011-MM | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2024

Case Ongoing

On February 6, 2024, abortion providers Northland Family Planning Center, Northland Family Planning Center Inc. East, and Northland Family Planning Center Inc., West (collectively, "Northland") and Medical Students for Choice ("MSFC") brought this lawsuit challenging abortion restrictions in the Michigan Court of Claims. The lawsuit challenged the state's 24-hour delay, mandatory counseling, and provider ban under the Michigan Constitution's fundamental right to reproductive freedom and nondisc…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Beemer v. Whitmer

1:20-cv-00323 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

On April 15, 2020, three Michigan residents, two owning cottages in the state and one owning a landscaping business, filed this complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of the State of Michigan and three county prosecuting attorneys, in their official capacities, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Michigan state law. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Freedom Law Center, challenged Michigan's Executive Order 2020-42, w…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whitmer v. Linderman

2022-193498-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2023

This case was filed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, to prevent enforcement of Michigan’s long-dormant anti-abortion law. Michigan’s dormant 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 MCL 750.14 was never repealed and has only gone unenforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, overruled on June 24, 2022, to protect the right to abortion.…
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 …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
DeBoer v. Snyder

2:12-cv-10285 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2012

Closed Date: 2015

On January 23, 2012, a same-sex couple, individually and on behalf of their three adopted children, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, against the State of Michigan. The case proceeded under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and began by challenging the Michigan law preventing adoption by unmarried parents. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel (including a professor at Wayne State law school), asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief. Sp…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Rouch World, LLC v. Michigan Department of Civil Rights

20-000145-MZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about Michigan's state civil rights law, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, and whether its prohibition of sex-based discrimination includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In mid 2020, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights opened two investigations into two Michigan businesses. One individual alleged that they were denied service at a business on the basis of their gender identity. And a same-sex couple alleged that they were denied service on the basis of t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc.

2:14-cv-13710 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2014

Case Ongoing

This was one of the LGBT discrimination cases before the Supreme Court in 2020 when it held that "[a]n employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964]." District Court This case addresses the scope of the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- which prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex -- asking if the st…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Weingartz Supply Co. v. Sebelius

2:12-cv-12061 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 7, 2012

Closed Date: 2018

On May 7, 2012, (1) Legatus, an organization of Catholic business persons and their spouses, together with (2) Weingartz Supply Co., a for-profit business and (3) its owner, Daniel Weingartz, also a Legatus member, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the federal government under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The plaintiffs, represented by private coun…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Signature Sothbeys International Realty, Inc. v. Whitmer

1:20-cv-00360 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2020

The executive orders issued by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 prohibited activities and business "not necessary to sustain or protect life." Seven Michigan businesses that were required to stop operating alleged that the executive orders violated their constitutional rights and state law. Represented by private counsel, plaintiffs brought this Section 1983 suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan against Governor W…