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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP) v. Michigan Law Review Association

5:25-cv-11837 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 18, 2025

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2025

The case challenged alleged racial and sex discrimination by the Michigan Law Review, a student law journal at the University of Michigan Law School, in its selection of members and articles. On June 18, 2025, Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences ("FASORP") filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. FASORP sued the Michigan Law Review Association ("MLR"), its editor-in-chief, managing editor, and executive development editor, four ano…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bally v. Whitmer

1:20-cv-01088 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2020

This case challenged the certification of Michigan’s presidential electors for the 2020 election, citing various reports of irregularities and fraud in Ingham, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties, all of which voted overwhelming for Joe Biden. On November 11, 2020, three Michigan voters filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. They sued the Governor of Michigan, the Michigan Board of Canvassers, the Ingham County Board of Canvassers, the Washtenaw County Boa…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

LABOR RIGHTS
United States v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

2:20-cv-13293 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2023

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). In December 2020, the United States and the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) entered a consent decree, after a Department of Justice investigation had previously found fraud and corruption within UAW. The consent decree set forth the settlement terms of the lawsuit, including the appointment of an independent monitor for six years.
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Hakim v. Regents of the University of Michigan

5:25-cv-11265 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On May 1, 2025, eight former employees of the University of Michigan sued the school for allegedly wrongfully terminating them in retaliation for the plaintiffs participation in pro-Palestine protests. Represented by the Sugar Law Center and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the plaintiffs alleged that the University violated their First Amendment free speech rights and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. 
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
S.L. v. Swanson

2024-120601CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: March 15, 2024

On March 15, 2024, a group of individuals with family members currently or formerly incarcerated in the Genesee County Jail filed a putative class action lawsuit in the 7th Circuit Court for Genesee County, Michigan challenging the blanket ban on in-person family visitation. Plaintiffs sued the Genesee County Sheriff; Global Tel*Link (“GTL”), a private prison telecommunications company; and the CEO of GTL, alleging that these defendants colluded to increase profits from the video- and phone-cal…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez-Echeverria v. Purpose Point Harvesting, LLC

1:22-cv-00314 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Closed Date: June 12, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On March 31, 2022, a group of migrant agricultural workers in Michigan filed a class action lawsuit against their employer, Purpose Point, who had hired them to perform agricultural labor in Michigan through the H‐2a program. Plaintiffs allege that defendants acted together to charge plaintiffs illegal recruitment fees, confiscated travel documents when Plaintiffs arrived in the United States, and paid Plaintiffs less than the contract wag…

Judgment for Plaintiff

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kloosterman v. Metropolitan Hospital

1:22-cv-00944 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2022

Closed Date: April 5, 2024

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On October 11, 2022, Plaintiff, a physician's assistant previously employed by Metropolitan Hospital for seventeen years, filed suit against her former employer in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Plaintiff claimed that she requested a religious accommodation to the Hospital's attempt to compel her to pledge, against her sincerely held religious convictions and her medical conscience, that she would speak biology-o…

Judgment for Defendant

Reversed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed this lawsuit on April 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff claimed that t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Pellant v. Detroit Tigers, Inc.

2:23-cv-13288 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2023

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2025

This case is about alleged age discrimination against two Major League Baseball (MLB) scouts. The two plaintiffs were both over age 60 and worked for the Detroit Tigers until they were fired in 2020 along with two other older scouts. The remaining scouts for the team were all between 20 and 50 years of age. The team claimed the firings were due to Covid, but Plaintiffs were denied reemployment after the pandemic. They therefore filed suit against the Tigers under the Age Discrimination in Emplo…

Administrative Stay Granted

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ries v. McDonald's USA, LLC

1:20-cv-00002 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2022

This case is about pervasive sexual harassment by a manager of a McDonald’s restaurant. It was filed in Michigan state court on November 12, 2019, and removed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on January 2, 2020. After initially being assigned to District Judge Janet T. Neff, the case was reassigned to District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou in September 2020. Several named plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, filed the suit on be…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)