His career as a public interest litigator has spanned a broad range of social justice and civil rights issues, including access to the courts and class action law, consumers’ rights, discrimination and selective enforcement, freedom of speech and press, habeas corpus rights, immigrants' rights, judicial secrecy, police misconduct, political protest, post-September 11 abuse of executive power, religious freedom, the rights of medical marijuana patients, sentencing law, unreasonable search and seizure, and workers' rights. Before coming to Public Citizen, Mr. Michelman was a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.