I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear an appeal filed by the Indiana state pension system against the sale of Chrysler to Fiat in bankruptcy restructuring after a district court judge rejected the plaintiff’s attempt to prevent that sale from taking place. Automotive News reports:
A U.S. Court of Appeals agreed on Tuesday to hear a challenge to Chrysler LLC’s sale of most of its assets to a group led Fiat, in a move that could potentially delay the deal.
The federal circuit court granted a request by a group of Indiana pension funds that hold a small portion of Chrysler’s secured debt to “stay” the sale order to allow the circuit court to hear the expedited appeal.
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear arguments in the appeal on Friday at 2 p.m. in New York, according to a court order on Tuesday.
The Indiana pension funds own a very small portion of the nearly $7 billion in secured debt that Chrysler sought to shed during bankruptcy proceedings. They are objecting to the plan filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court because it favors, illegally the funds claim, junior creditors over senior creditors.
The bankruptcy judge, Arthur Gonzales, has already authorized the sale to take place by Friday. It seems unlikely that a circuit court would interfere with those proceedings, especially with so much at stake for so many others and the Indiana pension funds holding such a small claim relative to the total debt.
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