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 saga of Kwame Kilpatrick and his seemingly endless attempts to get out of paying the court-ordered restitution owed to the city of Detroit has taken another odd turn. Carlita Kilpatrick, wife of the disgraced former Detroit mayor, is going to file suit in federal court in Texas seeking to have her assets separated from her husband’s so that they cannot be counted as his income and used to pay the restitution. The Detroit Free Press reports:
In the 13-page document, Carlita Kilpatrick seeks to separate assets belonging to her and the couple’s three young sons from those of her husband. He is involved in a legal battle with prosecutors over the $1 million in restitution he agreed to pay the city following pleas in 2008 to two criminal cases tied to a text-messaging sex scandal involving a former aide.
Carlita Kilpatrick’s attorney, Bobbie Edmonds, said Monday night in an e-mail to the AP that the document will not be filed until Tuesday in Texas…
The draft of a complaint and request for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is addressed to the U.S. District Court in Forth Worth, Texas. The document has not been signed by a judge.
It names Wayne County and Prosecutor Kym Worthy as defendants.
The document asks a judge to stop Wayne County and Worthy “from taking any further action to capture the assets of Plaintiffs to satisfy the restitution of Probationer, Kwame Kilpatrick.”
Meanwhile, Kwame Kilpatrick is to appear in Wayne County Circuit Court on Tuesday for a hearing in which the judge may order him back to jail for failure to live up to the restitution agreement.
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