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ACLU Sues Metropark Over "Free Speech Zone"

DETROIT -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit today against a Wayne County Metro Park for stopping an environmental advocate from holding a protest sign at park event where the U.S. Secretary of the Interior was speaking.

April 26, 2006

Mt. Pleasant and Isabella County Settle Breathalyzer Lawsuit

Agree to stop breath tests of minors without warrants

April 17, 2006

Court of Appeals To Hear Oral Argument in Lawsuit

On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. a panel of three judges from the Michigan Court of Appeals will hear oral argument in Na’l. Pride at Work v Granholm.

When: April 11, 9:30am.

Where: Michigan Hall of Justice, 925 W. Ottawa, Lansing.

April 10, 2006

ACLU Asks Federal Court to Block Illegal Spying Program

DETROIT — Saying that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping of Americans is flatly illegal and unconstitutional, the American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal court in Detroit to block the program immediately.

March 9, 2006

ACLU Files Brief

DETROIT — Today the ACLU of Michigan filed a friend of the court brief in support of litigation asking the State Supreme Court to reverse a lower court opinion that ordered the State Board of Canvassers to place on the November ballot a measure that would ban affirmative action. The Board complie

February 24, 2006

Children Sentenced to Life Without Parole Bring Plea to Human Rights Body

The national American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan today filed a petition urging the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to rule that sentencing children to mandatory life without the possibility of parole violates the Declaration of the Rights of Man and universal human r

February 22, 2006