Legal Milestone List

  Elloitt-Larsen Civil Rights Act
  Milliken v. Bradley
  Elk, Oil, and the Environment
  Whisper to Rallying Cry
  Poletown & Eminent Domain
  Prentiss M. Brown
  Otis Milton Smith
  Freedom Road
  President Gerald R. Ford
  Mary Coleman
  Committee of One
  Milo Radulovich
  Striking Racial Covenants
  Murphy's Dissent
  Conveying Michigan
  Ending Jim Crow
  Pond's Defense
  Mount Clemens Pottery
  Emelia Schaub
  Rose of Aberlone
  Protecting the Impaired
  Laughing Whitefish
  The Uninvited Ear
  The King's Grant
  Improving Justice
  One Person—One Vote
  Eva Belles' Vote
  Constitutional Convention
  Ten Hours or No Sawdust
  Access to Public Water
  Augustus Woodward
  Sojourner Truth
  Justice William Fletcher
  Roosevelt-Newett Trial
  Cooley Law Office
  Baseball Reserve Clause
  Ossian Sweet Trial

Resources

1. Ossian Sweet Trial

• Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials, University of Detroit Mercy
• Detroit News: 'I have to die a man or live a coward'—the Saga of Dr. Ossian Sweet
• Famous American Trials: The Sweet Trials 1925 & 1926

2. Baseball Reserve Clause

• Stereoscope Magazine: The Catcher, the Quick Lunch King," and Baseball's Reserve Clause: Major League Litigation in Grand Rapids, Winter 2003
• Baseball's Reserve Clause, Speech by Dennis W. Archer to the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society, April13, 2000
• NY Times: Baseball Reserve Clause is Legal, January 31,1914

3. Cooley Law Office

• Michigan Supreme Court History: Thomas M. Cooley

4. Roosevelt-Newett Trial

• Michigan Bar Journal: Rough Rider Clears Name in U.P. PDF
• NY Times: Bars All Rumor about Roosevelt, May 29,1913
• NY Times: Roosevelt Wins, Editor Retracts, 1913

5. Justice William Fletcher

• Michigan Supreme Court History: William Fletcher

6. Sojourner Truth

7. Augustus Woodward

8. Access to Public Water

9. Ten Hours or No Sawdust

10. Constitutional Convention

• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF June 2007
• SBM News Press Release

11. Eva Belles' Vote

12. One Person, One Vote

13. Improving Justice

14. The King's Grant

15. The Uninvited Ear

16. Laughing Whitefish

17. Protecting the Impaired

• The Verdict of History: The History of Michigan Jurisprudence Through its Significant Supreme Court Cases (Supplement from the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society) PDF January 2009

18. Rose of Aberlone

• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF March 2008
• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF June 2008
• The Verdict of History: The History of Michigan Jurisprudence Through its Significant Supreme Court Cases (Supplement from the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society) PDF January 2009

19. Emelia Schaub

• Michigan Bar Journal: Michigan Lawyers in History—Emilia Schaub: 100 Years of Leadership January 2000
• Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society: Women and the Law
• Michigan Women's Hall of Fame

20. Mount Clemens Pottery

21. Pond's Defense

• The Verdict of History: The History of Michigan Jurisprudence Through its Significant Supreme Court Cases (Supplement from the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society) PDF December 2008
• Pond V. The People: Michigan Sets a Legal Precedent By Larry Peterson
  Excerped with permission from Michigan History Magazine March/April 2011

22. Ending Jim Crow

23. Conveying Michigan

24. Murphy's Dissent

• Korematsu v. United States
• MGTV: Defining Moments—Frank Murphy, Fred Korematsu, and the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II

25. Striking Racial Covenants

26. Milo Radulovich

• CBS Evening News: Remembering Milo Radulovich

27. Committee of One

28. Mary Coleman

• Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society: Biography
• Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society: Interview with Mary S. Coleman
• Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society: Women and the Law

29. President Gerald R. Ford

• Michigan Bar Journal: President's Page: Gerald R. Ford—Accidental Hero PDF January 2007
• Michigan Bar Journal: In Memoriam: A Special Tribute PDF January 2007
• Gerald R. Ford Museum
• Gerald R. Ford Library
• Gerald R. Ford Foundation

30. Freedom Road

• Michigan Bar Journal: A Stop on the Long Road to Freedom PDF July, 2005
• The Under Ground Railroad
• The Underground Railroad Brochure PDF
• The Michigan Underground Railroad

31. Otis Milton Smith

• Michigan Bar Journal: A Trailblazing Leader: Otis M. Smith's accomplishments are the focus of the 31st Michigan Legal Milestone PDF June 2006
• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF August 2006
• NY Times Otis Smith
• Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society Otis Smith
• Audio Interview with Rodger Lane

32. Prentiss M. Brown

• Michigan Bar Journal: A Mackinac Milestone: Vissionary Presniss Brown to be Honored at 32nd Michigan Legal Milestone PDF September 2007
• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF December 2007
• Youtube video: MDOT: Our Bridge at 50, Part 1 of 4

33. Poletown and Eminent Domain

• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF January 2009
• Michigan Bar Journal: The Verdict of History: The History of Michigan Jurisprudence Through Its Significant Supreme Court Cases (Supplement from the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society) by PDF March 2009
• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF November 2008
• County of Wayne v. Hathcock
• Michigan Courts Discussion Guide
• Detroit News: Auto Plant vs. Neighborhood: The Poletown Battle, January 27, 2000
• Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: A Gleeful Obituary for Poletown Neighborhood Council v. Detroit, March 22, 2005

34. From A Whisper to a Rallying Cry

• Michigan Bar Journal: Killing Spawned Asian American Civil Rights Movement: 34th Milestone to Highlight Vincent Chin Case PDF May 2009
• Invitation to Milestone Dedication PDF

35. Elk, Oil and the Environment

• West Michigan Environmental Action Council, Inc. v. Natural Resources Commission PDF
• Photos of the Pigeon River area
• Maps of the area
• Pigeon River Country Association

36. Milikin v. Bradley

• Michigan Bar Journal: Milliken v Bradley: The Northern Battle for Desegregation PDF
  September 2011
• Case Law
• Invitation to Milestone Dedication PDF
• Michigan Government TV Video of Milestone Dedication

37. Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act

• Michigan Bar Journal: The Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act PDF
• Michigan Bar Journal: UpFront PDF
• Michigan Legislative Website Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act 453 1976
• Michigan Department of Civil Rights

General Resources

The Verdict of History

• December 2008 1858-1870 PDF
• January 2009 1870-1940 PDF
• February 2009 1940-1970 PDF
• March 2009 1970-1994 PDF