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PRISON CONDITIONS
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-11222 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2015

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2015, three prisoner-plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), alleging that MDOC was discriminating against them and other deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and was assigned to Judge Sean Cox. The plaintiffs were represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and private counsel. The plaintiffs al…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Moore v. Johnson

2:14-cv-11903 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 12, 2014

Closed Date: July 1, 2014

None
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Planned Parenthood of Michigan v. Attorney General of Michigan

22-000044-MM | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is  plaintiffs’ effort to avoid the triggering of Michigan’s dormant anti-abortion . 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 MCL 750.14 was never repealed; it has not been enforced because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade holding that the U.S. Constitution protects the right to get an abortion.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 t…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whitmer v. Linderman

2022-193498-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s effort to avoid triggering Michigan’s 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 MCL 750.14 was never repealed and has only gone unenforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, overruled on June 24, 2022, to protect the right to abortion. The Michigan…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Milliken v. Bradley

2:70-cv-20794 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 1970

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 1989

This landmark case is about racial segregation in the Detroit metropolitan area schools, and has been described as the most significant school desegregation case since Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (also in this Clearinghouse). The first Supreme Court ruling is often denoted as Milliken I, and was considered crucial for clarifying the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation. It confirmed that a school district would not be held responsible for segregation across …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Reed-Pratt v. Winfrey

3:20-cv-12129 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/01/2020, Plaintiff sued City Clerk for the City of Detroit, Detroit Department of Elections, and Detroit Election Commission for violating her procedural and substantive due process rights by mailing of an unsolicited absentee voter application. Plaintiff voted in person in the August 4, 2020 democratic primary election…
EDUCATION
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Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)Parents of special needs children covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act brought this class action against the State of Michigan and local education agencies alleging that the defendants failed to provide adequate services to their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Boler v. Governor

16-000126-MK | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: 2016

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is part of the greater Flint water litigation. Please see our special collection for more information about these cases. This particular case is a class action lawsuit in Michigan state court requesting monetary damages under several state law theories, including unjust enrichment and breach of contract based on allegations that officials lied about pollution in water. 
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
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Mays v. Snyder

16-000017-MM | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: 2016

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is part of the greater Flint water litigation. Please see our special collection for more information about these cases. This particular case is a class action lawsuit in Michigan state court requesting monetary damages under several state law theories.  
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Collins v. City of Flint

16-106077-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: 2016

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is part of the greater Flint water litigation. Please see our special collection for more information about these cases. This particular case is a class action lawsuit in Michigan state court requesting monetary damages under several state law theories, including breach of contract and unjust enrichment.