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Michigan school district to shed name of former governor, slaveholder
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
The Cass County Courthouse in Cassopolis, Michigan, photographed Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. (Kendall Warner | Mlive.com) Kendall Warner | MLive.comKendall Warner | MLive.com
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CASS COUNTY, MI A southwest Michigan school district named after a former governor and slaveholder is changing its name after a unanimous vote from its Board of Education last week.
The Lewis Cass Intermediate School District which provides special education and career technical education to parts of four counties will have a new name in January, The Herald-Palladium first reported Sunday, Dec. 20.
The district serves Cass County and small parts of Berrien, St. Joseph and Van Buren counties.
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MARQUETTE Following a Michigan Court of Claims decision involving a discrimination lawsuit filed against the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced she is commending the court’s decision on “gender identity” but vows to appeal its ruling as it relates to “sexual orientation” and the terms’ meanings under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include UpRooted Electrolysis LLC, based in Gwinn, and Rouch World LLC, an amusement park in downstate Sturgis, while the defendants are the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and Mary Engleman, interim director of the department.
According to the attorney general’s office, the businesses, based on religious grounds, denied services to customers who were either a same-sex couple or an individual who was transitioning their gender identity.
Mich. court rules anti-trans discrimination is illegal, but not anti-gay discrimination
By : Chris Johnson OF THE WASHINGTON BLADE, COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL LGBT MEDIA ASSOCIATION December 18, 2020
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A judge in Michigan has determined state civil rights law prohibits businesses from discriminating against customers for being transgender, but not on the basis of sexual orientation a decision the state’s top lawyer on Dec. 10 has vowed to appeal.
In a seven-page decision, Judge Christopher Murray this week ruled case law in Michigan makes clear anti-gay discrimination isn’t covered under the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, but with no clear precedent on anti-transgender discrimination, the state must defer to U.S. legal jurisprudence.
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