It has been more than six years since Walter Swift was exonerated of rape based on DNA evidence, but he still doesn’t feel justice has been served. WJBK- FOX Detroit reported that Swift, who spent nearly 26 years behind bars before being freed in 2008, and is now...

January 9, 2018 | The Michigan Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday from attorneys representing Gov. Rick Snyder, two former Flint emergency managers and other officials who believe they shouldn't be held civilly liable in the Flint water crisis. The state is...

June 14, 2021 | Michigan State Police (MSP) and a local SWAT team in April executed a raid on a home in Flint, Michigan, battering down the door and holding the family at gunpoint while they went through their things. A confidential informant gave the cops the...

April 12, 2021 | A group of five women claimed Monday that Detroit police ignored their bright green caps designating them as National Lawyers Guild Legal Observers and assaulted them during protests last year.     A lawsuit alleging the abuse was filed this...

August 8, 2022 | Bill Goodman, the son of Ernie Goodman, who was one of the founding members of the National Lawyers Guild, is a legend in his own right. A past national president of the NLG, one of the founding officers of the NLG National Police Accountability...

June 20, 2017 | After nearly three years, a judge has dismissed charges against nine defendants arrested for protesting Detroit’s mass water shutoffs. The so-called “Homrich Nine” were arrested in June 2014 for attempting to block trucks belonging to Homrich, the...

October 13, 2001 | Ibrahim Turkmen answered a knock on the door of his home in West Babylon, New York, to find two FBI agents. A solemn man with a strong jaw and deeply etched features, Turkmen was thirty-five years old at the time. Though his English was limited, he...

June 17, 2016 | A Hillsdale man is suing the state, county, and city officials for being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for failing to register as a sex offender. Anthony Hart is suing for false arrest, malicious prosecution, failures in the municipal system, and...

June 14, 2016 | Detroit and Wayne County officials could find themselves in court as lawyers for Davontae Sanford anticipate filing a federal civil rights lawsuit stemming from his eight-year stint in prison for murders he did not commit. When asked if there would be...

Sep 12, 2015 | The wife of a man who in 2013 hung himself in his Ottawa County jail cell is suing the county and three jail deputies, claiming they failed to protect him from himself. Scott Meirs, who was in jail on second-degree home invasion charges, was found...

March 14, 2016 |Civil rights attorneys from the Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, National Lawyers Guild, Sanders Law Firm, the ACLU, and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed an appeal in Phillips v. Snyder, a 2013 federal lawsuit...

  June 15, 2016 | Davontae Sanford’s family is considering a civil lawsuit, sources close to the family tell us after he was wrongfully imprisoned for eight years. Sanford was arrested at age 14 for a quadruple homicide on Runyon Street in 2007. A recent Michigan...

June 2, 2017 | A man who uses a wheelchair and was arrested while protesting Detroit water shutoffs in 2014 claims he’s the victim of a rough ride in a police vehicle. S. Baxter Jones, 61, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday, June 1 against the city of Detroit and...

September 19, 2017 | Davontae Sanford is suing the city of Detroit, as well as former Detroit Police Commander James Tolbert and Sgt. Mike Russell, for wrongful imprisonment. Sanford spent nearly nine years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. At age 14, he was...

September 20, 2017 | Davontae Sanford spent nine years in prison for four murder convictions that were later dismissed. Now, he’s filed a lawsuit against the city of Detroit, as well as two former investigators — Homicide Unit Commander James Tolbert and Detective...