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.
A graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Law has won an appeal to over turn his conviction for violating an MSU ordinance prohibiting interference with officials.
The case arose in September of 2008 when Jared Rapp returned to his car to find a parking ticket for an expired meter. He noticed the parking official and asked about the ticket, and this, according to the Lansing State Journal, became a “heated conversation.”
Other police officials arrived and decided to charge Rapp with violating MSU Ordinance 15.01 because he allegedly obstructed the parking officer from working with a tow truck to remove another vehicle.
Rapp was convicted by a jury in East Lansing’s 54B District Court earlier this year, and sentenced to two years probation by Judge David Jordan. Rapp appealed the conviction on the grounds it violated his First Amendment rights, and last week Ingham County District Court Judge Paula Manderfield threw out Rapp’s conviction.
In Manderfield’s ruling, she cited a U.S. Supreme Court decision that said the “freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”
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