High Court Declines to Hear Challenge in Case Involving Benefits for Undocumented Workers

Michigan's Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision Friday, denied an application to review an appellate court decision dismissing a constitutional challenge to the law used to withhold indemnity benefits from undocumented workers who used fraudulent documents to secure a job. The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center in 2021 sued Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, arguing that it was harmed when its program providing legal services to farmworkers was swamped with requests for assistance from undocumented workers. The organization said the cause of the harm was the 2003 Michigan Court of Appeals decision holding ...