麦基诺中心要求保护 7亿美元 减税
不久之后,密歇根居民得知他们的所得税将会减少, 该州财政部长宣布,这一削减将是暂时的,只适用于今年, 尽管法律明确要求永久性减税. The Mackinac Center is challenging this shaky interpretation of the law to preserve the tax cut and save 密歇根ders more than $700 million a year.
不久之后,密歇根居民得知他们的所得税将会减少, 该州财政部长宣布,这一削减将是暂时的,只适用于今年, 尽管法律明确要求永久性减税. The Mackinac Center is challenging this shaky interpretation of the law to preserve the tax cut and save 密歇根ders more than $700 million a year.
Before the ink dried on the United States Supreme Court decision that struck down an unconstitutional student-loan cancellation program, 美国教育部匆忙宣布了几项同样非法的贷款取消计划. 如果任其发展,其中一项计划将耗费美国纳税人1750亿美元.
2月23日, 2023, the Mackinac Center filed a FOIA request for agreements made between 密歇根 State University and a local farmer who had donated a parcel of land to the university. The Center filed its request after learning that MSU was considering selling the land for use in an economic development mega-site, 哪些可能是被捐赠者与大学的协议所禁止的. . 密歇根州立大学的回应对协议中的几段内容进行了修改, 声称里面有私人信息, but a review of the documents suggests that the exemptions 密歇根 State University claimed don’t apply to the information that was redacted.
The 麦基诺中心法律基金会 is suing 密歇根 State University to obtain full and complete transparency regarding the agreements, 并要求该大学对其糟糕的《十大网赌软件》行为负责.
为应对Covid-19大流行, 国会暂时暂停联邦学生贷款支付6个月. 虽然这项减免应该在2020年到期, 教育部非法地继续延长禁令, 纳税人因此损失了1500亿美元的利息.
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created in March 2020 to help small businesses weather the economic storms of the 新型冠状病毒肺炎 pandemic. 尽管没有资格, the 密歇根 教育 Association and the 密歇根 教育 Special Services Association received a sum totaling more than $12.500万纳税人的钱. 麦基诺中心法律基金会发现了这个错误, 此后,这两个组织都偿还了贷款, 还有罚款和诉讼费.
尽管老师评价很高, 约翰Lancellotta, 罗德岛州的一名公立学校教师, 在行使宪法第一修正案赋予的退出工会的权利后,他失去了工作. 迫使约翰在支持工会和保住工作之间做出选择, 学校对他的雇用提出了违反宪法的条件.
桑德拉·赫恩登(Sandra Hernden)是一名警官,也是奇佩瓦山谷学校系统一名特殊需要学生的母亲. 在向远程教育转变的过程中,她眼睁睁地看着儿子在学业和社交上都受到了影响.
The 麦基诺中心法律基金会 is representing Associated Builders and Contractors of 密歇根 in its effort to end the governor’s power grab.
The 密歇根 Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) claims that the “Pure 密歇根” tourism program has been a successful investment while never producing the information needed for the public to assess that claim for themselves. 麦基诺中心法律基金会(麦基诺中心法律基金会)多年来一直努力通过《十大网赌软件》获得澄清文件,目前正在起诉MEDC.
自2021年12月起, Carol Beth Litkouhi一直试图从罗切斯特社区学区获得记录. 该地区错误地引用版权法和其他法规,拒绝交出这些文件.
In 1970, 密歇根 adopted a discriminatory provision to its constitution that prevents private schools and their students from receiving any form of public aid. 麦基诺中心法律基金会于9月9日提起诉讼. 23 against the state of 密歇根 on behalf of five families who want to provide the best education possible for their children by using a federally administered 529 education saving account to pay for private K-12 tuition.
3月29日, the Mackinac Center filed a public records request to the city of Highland Park for the salary and personnel records for Lieutenant James McMahon.
1月. 12, 2021, the Mackinac Center filed a FOIA request for the names of all employees of the University of 密歇根's Office of Institutional Equity in 2019 and 2020. 2月. 2, 该大学公布了员工的姓名和基本工资,但没有提供要求的奖金和加班费.
一月初, the Mackinac Center made a routine FOIA request to the City of Flint asking for the gross salaries of the city's public employees. 截至3月中旬,该中心尚未收到来自该市的任何信件或记录.
1月, Charlie LeDuff sent a FOIA request to the 密歇根 Department of Health and Human Services for information on deaths related to 新型冠状病毒肺炎. 密歇根州卫生与公众服务部拒绝了这一请求.
The Mackinac Center submitted a FOIA request to the city of Warren that asked for the salaries and names of every city employee. 市政府回应了这一要求,给出了估计的成本,但表示将省略员工的姓名. 它没有给出豁免的理由,这是密歇根州《十大网赌软件》的要求.
3月, 美国校友会(American Council of Trustees and Alumni)提交了一份公共记录申请,要求了解这笔捐款的使用情况. 密歇根大学估计,制作这些文件只需要不到7个小时, 但是,尽管200天过去了,花费了数百美元, 完整的记录仍未公布.
麦基诺中心支付了500多美元,等待了5个多月才收到一份发给密歇根州立大学的公共记录申请. 据校方估计,这一申请大约需要17个小时才能完成, 但尚未提供公开文件.
5月, the Mackinac Center filed a public records request with the University of 密歇根 in order to get documents and data which allegedly supported 政府. 惠特默的春季停产. 消息被拒绝了好几个月, 最终提供时, 被大量删节或隐瞒.
2020年6月, the Mackinac Center filed a public records request with the 密歇根 Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs concerning businesses that allegedly violated the governor's executive orders related to 新型冠状病毒肺炎.
虽然他们每年都缴纳房产税,但他们在不知情的情况下少缴了144美元的2014年税款. By 2017, 韦恩县又追加了359美元的利息, 罚款和费用, 没收他们的财产, 卖了108美元,根据现行的州法律,他们保留了超过他们所欠的每一分钱.
在奥巴马州长辞职之后. Gretchen Whitmer的许多行政命令, 5月20日,一场名为“理发行动”的活动在国会大厦草坪上举行, 2020. 在这次抗议中,发型师萨拉·赫夫被传讯,现在面临轻罪.
Three medical practices and one patient were unable to schedule important medical procedures due to the 新型冠状病毒肺炎 coronavirus pandemic.
从2014年开始, 工会强迫吉姆·沙克向“当地X”捐款——据说是当地的一个联合汽车工人工会, Shake和Mackinac中心法律基金会的律师找不到任何记录.
而乔迪·拉特, 丽莎·格雷加和迈克尔·科皮的职业可能截然不同, they are all facing the same problem; window periods that limit their ability to opt out of their union.
迈克尔Thulen, Michael Porter和Terence Gaudlip是新泽西州的三名公务员. 他们认为自己有权在任何时候离开工会并终止对工会的财政支持.
Dr. 马克•爱德华兹, 作为弗林特水危机相关工作的一部分, 2017年向韦恩州立大学提交了几份《十大网赌软件》申请. 这所大学选择无视《十大网赌软件》.
林Rizzo-Rupon, Noemieo Oliveira和Susan Marshall并没有选择加入他们的工会, 但为了保住工作,他们目前不得不支持它.
四年后密西根州通过了工作权法案和三份合同协议, 是时候让教育部和它所有的地方分支机构承认工作权也适用于教师了, 太. 因此,MCLF正在帮助科学教师罗纳德·罗宾逊(Ronald Robinson)争取自由.
开放的政府需要及时的信息, 因此,MCLF对密歇根州环境质量部提起了诉讼,. 原因是:该部门花了几个月的时间来回应与弗林特水危机有关的一项简单的公共记录请求.
当人们被迫资助他们不同意的言论时,第一修正案的权利就被侵犯了. The Mackinac Center is representing a resort owner fighting against a tourism bureau that is making him subsidize marketing campaigns he opposes.
The 麦基诺公共政策研究中心 filed a lawsuit against the city of Westland for an illegal fee on people seeking public information. 因此,他们同意调整对公共文件收取的费用.
The MCLF filed a lawsuit on behalf of four city of Dearborn employees against Teamsters Local 214 over the union's misreading of 密歇根's right-to-work law. 截至2013年12月,当地214卡车司机工会放弃了其反rtw歧视政策.
迈克尔Fernhout, 怀俄明州的五年级老师, 密歇根, 决定是时候退出他的婚姻了. “我想退出,因为尽管工会做了很多工作, 我没有从中受益……而且会员费是天文数字.”
麦基诺中心法律基金会代表Joshua Khon老师提起诉讼. 一个工会声称他仍然需要支付服务费, 尽管密歇根有工作权法, 因为工会和学区之间签订了一份异常冗长且结构奇怪的协议.
The 麦基诺中心法律基金会 sued on behalf of three teachers in the Taylor School District over a side agreement the union and school board reached that would force teachers to financially support the union for 10 years.
The Foundation sued to end the SEIU-HM and MQCCC's illegal diversion of so-called "union dues" from federal Medicaid checks received by home help providers, 谁经常照顾残疾的家庭成员.
The Foundation prevented the 密歇根 Employment Relations Commission from violating its previous ruling that research assistants are students, 不是公务员. 该动议是代表研究生研究助理梅琳达·戴(Melinda Day)提出的.
The 麦基诺中心法律基金会 sued 10 Kent County school districts and the Kent County 教育 Association to remove illegal contract language.
The Foundation sued to end the DHS' illegal diversion of so-called "union dues" from state subsidy checks received by 密歇根's home-based day care providers who watch children from low-income families.