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 man who says he was wrongfully prosecuted for making people sick after a trial is suing authorities in Mt. Pleasant and Isabella County. The facts in this story are some of the strangest you’ll ever hear, as reported by the Bay City Times:
Ridgeway had represented himself in a misdemeanor traffic case in December 2005. As the jury prepared to deliver its verdict, Ridgeway pulled out a vial of oil, put some on his fingertips and rubbed it around the defense table, court documents show.
He later insisted on shaking hands with an assistant prosecutor, the bailiff and the officer who gave him the ticket he was fighting.
All three soon suffered symptoms including nausea, headaches, numbness and tingling, records show.
Ridgeway has said the substance was anointing oil, or virgin olive oil that had been blessed by Pastor Pete Peters of the La Porte Church of Christ in La Porte, Colo..
Peters urged his followers to use the oils to cast evil out of government buildings, including courthouses, around the country, court documents reveal.
Ridgeway was arrested for assaulting public officers for using some sort of substance to make them sick, but a jury acquitted him of those charges. Now he’s suing the city and county officials involved.
It seems unlikely that he’ll win the case. Those officials do have qualified immunity from such suits, so the burden of proof is on the plaintiff and is set pretty high.
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