Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Jury Questions Remain in Suit by Casino Worker Fired for Refusing Covid Vaccine

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In   Brown v. MGM Grand Casino ,  ( ED MI, Nov. 18, 2024), a Michigan federal district court refused to grant summary judgment for either pa...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

IT Specialist Awarded $12.69M For Denied Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate

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 A Michigan federal district court jury last week awarded damages of $12,690,000 to an IT specialist who was fired from her position after s...
Monday, September 23, 2024

6th Circuit Rules on Christian Plaintiffs' Standing to Challenge Michigan's Civil Rights Acts

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In Christian Healthcare Centers, Inc. v. Nessel ,  (6th Cir., Sept. 20, 2024), a Christian membership-based medical service ministry and two...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Muslim Woman Can Move Ahead on Some Challenges to Sheriff's Booking Photo Policy

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In Hague v. Kent County ,  (WD MI, Sept. 9, 2024), plaintiff, a Muslim woman, challenged the Kent County, Michigan, Sheriff Office's pol...
Monday, September 09, 2024

RLUIPA Success Unlikely on Challenge to Denial of Special Use Permit for Jewish Retreat Center

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In Fresh Start Center v. Township of Grosse Ile ,  (ED MI, Sept. 5, 2024), a Michigan federal district court refused to grant a preliminary ...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Catholic Counselors Challenge Michigan's Transgender Conversion Therapy Ban

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Suit was filed last week in a Michigan federal district court challenging the constitutionality of Michigan statutes that ban counselors fro...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Suit Challenges Michigan Medicaid Ban on Abortion Funding

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Suit was filed yesterday in the Michigan Court of Claims challenging the exclusion of abortion coverage from the state's Medicaid progra...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Michigan Court Enjoins Abortion Restrictions Including 24-Hour Waiting Period and Consent Form

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 In Northland Family Planning Center v. Nessel ,  (MI Ct. Cl., June 25, 2024), the Michigan Court of Claims issued a preliminary injunction ...
Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Neo-Nazi Sentenced for Defacing Michigan Synagogue

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 In a press release , the Department of Justice announced yesterday: A Michigan man was sentenced today to 26 months in prison followed by t...
Monday, June 03, 2024

Obstructing Police Clearing Abortion Clinic Demonstrators Not Protected as Free Exercise

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In People of the State of Michigan v. Connolly ,  (MI App., May 30, 2024), a Michigan state appellate court upheld convictions of four anti-...
Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Cert. Filed In Challenge To Michigan's Blaine Amendment

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A petition for certiorari  ( full text ) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court last week in Hile v. State of Michigan,  (Sup. Ct., cert.  fi...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Air Pollution Did Not Violate City Residents' Free Exercise Rights

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In Dancer v. United States ,  (WD MI, March 15, 2024), residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan sued a variety of governmental and private parties a...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Man Sentenced To 1 Year + For Threatening Synagogue Shooting

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According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan, on Monday a 20-year old Michigan man...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Michigan Prisons Implement Settlement Agreement on Religious Practices

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In a press release yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that Michigan correctional authorities have now fully implemented prison ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Parents Sue School for Using Teen's Preferred Masculine Name and Pronouns

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Michigan federal district court by parents of a 13-year-old biologically female child whose school concealed f...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Michigan Agency Charges Hair Salon with Gender Identity Discrimination

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The Michigan Department of Civil Rights this week filed a charge of sex (gender identity) discrimination on behalf of three claimants with t...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Michigan Passes Institutional Desecration Ban

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 Last week, the Michigan legislature gave final passage to HB 4476 ( full text ) ( legislative history ) which creates the crime of "in...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Suit Challenges Michigan's Reproductive Freedom Amendment on Federal Constitutional Grounds

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In November 2022, Michigan voters passed a  state constitutional amendment providing a right to reproductive freedom. Yesterday a group of p...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

6th Circuit Rejects Equal Protection Challenge To Michigan Ban On Public Funds for Private and Religious Schools

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In Hile v. State of Michigan ,  (6th Cir., Nov. 6, 2023), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that an amendment placed in the Michiga...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Episcopal Priest Sues County Commissioners Over Invocation Policy

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Suit was filed this week in a Michigan federal district court by an Episcopal Priest in Grand Haven, Michigan, challenging the manner in whi...