December 03, 2024
Michigan's attorney general has agreed not to hold a Christian healthcare provider accountable to certain antidiscrimination protections related to gender and sexuality while the provider challenges them in court. Meanwhile, a New York federal judge decided to keep the largest anesthesiology provider in the U.S. on the hook for antitrust claims over its noncompete agreements with clinicians.
October 27, 2023
Jewish and Muslim religious freedom advocates have pressed the Sixth Circuit not to erode an exemption to discrimination law that allows religious employers to hire only employees who share their faith, saying the loss of the carveout would have an "especially deleterious" effect on minority faiths.
August 23, 2023
A Michigan judge said the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling affirming a web designer's right to refuse to make wedding sites for gay couples can't be invoked to reopen a suit from a medical clinic that refuses to provide gender-affirming health care.
July 10, 2023
A Christian health care clinic said a Michigan federal court should take note of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling letting a Colorado website designer refuse services for same-sex weddings, arguing the decision shows a lawsuit challenging LGBTQ protections in Michigan was erroneously tossed.
April 05, 2023
A Christian health care organization urged a Michigan federal judge to reconsider the dismissal of its lawsuit alleging the state's sex discrimination law — amended to bar gender identity bias — is unconstitutional, arguing that the court should review new documents and a development in the state Legislature.
November 21, 2022
Michigan's civil rights department hit back at a Christian health care center's lawsuit alleging the state's updated definition of sex discrimination is unconstitutional, telling a federal district court that the suit should be dismissed for being premature.