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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Grand Rapids v. Nessel

1:22-cv-01214 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which, in 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court interpreted to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, unconstitutionally infringed on religious liberty.  On December 22, 2022, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Sacred Heart, alongside its school, Sacred Heart Academy, and several individual Sacred Heart members …
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 MCL 750.14 was never repealed; it has not been enforced because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade holding that the U.S. Constitution protects the right to get an abortion.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 …
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 MCL 750.14 was never repealed and has only gone unenforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, overruled on June 24, 2022, to protect the right to abortion.…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Nielsen v. Ann Arbor Public Schools

2:22-cv-12632 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about free speech in a public high school's school-wide announcements at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One week before Election Day, on November 1, 2022, the Skyline Republican Club ("the Club") and its president, a high school senior, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Ann Arbor Public Schools, the Skyline High School principal, and the Skyline secretary. The plaintiffs claimed their constitutional and statutor…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
St. Joseph Parish St. Johns v. Nessel

1:22-cv-01154 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 5, 2022, a Catholic church in rural Michigan filed this lawsuit against the state, arguing that new sex and gender protections under civil rights law prevent its elementary school from hiring and teaching according to its faith. The church filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, and named the Michigan Attorney General, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and Michigan Civil Rights Commission as the defendants. The church …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Agee, Jr. v. Benson

1:22-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the legality of Michigan House of Representatives and Senate districts.  In November 2018, Michigan voters approved a state constitutional amendment that gave the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission the power to draw state legislative districts, instead of the legislature. Mich. Const. Art. IV, § 6. The amendment also directed the Michigan Secretary of State to serve as the Commission’s non-voting secretary.  On March 23, 2022, twelve Black Michigan voter…
POLICING
Taylor v. City of Saginaw

1:17-cv-11067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 5, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2022

This is the first case to allege that “chalking” tires––the practice of marking a legally parked vehicle to track how long it has been parked––to enforce parking time limits is a Fourth Amendment violation. On April 5, 2017, an individual plaintiff filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Saginaw and its parking enforcement officer in her individual capacity. The plaintiff sought injunctive and declaratory relief …
EDUCATION
Balow v. Michigan State University

1:21-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is an ongoing Title IX case about Michigan State University's attempt to eliminate its varsity aquatics program. In October 2020, MSU –– a NCAA Division 1 school –– announced it would discontinue its women's and men's varsity swimming and diving programs at the end of the 2020-2021 season due to budget cuts. Eleven women on the team then hired private counsel to sue the University, president, its board of trustees, and its director of athletics. Their January 15, 2021 complaint, filed in t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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

On August 9, 2020, a Detroit resident and registered voter sued the Detroit city clerk, Detroit Department of Elections, and Detroit Election Commission, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan challenging Detroit's absentee ballot processes. The plaintiff alleged that, during the June 2020 primary elections, Detroit sent absentee ballots to all registered voters regardless of whether the voters requested them. The plaintiff asserted that sending unsolicited absentee bal…