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.
Kent County Clerk Mary Hollinrake is going to fight a federal lawsuit challenging the necessity of social security numbers for marriage. Hollinrake is being sued by two anonymous couples who say they were denied marriage licenses because at least one person in the couples did not have a social security number.
They did not have social security numbers because they are undocumented residents.
But Hollinrake says through a filing in federal court that those couples do not deserve anonymity in their lawsuit and has asked U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker to force the couples to explain why the case should proceed, the Grand Rapids Press reports.
“Although defendants Mary Hollinrake and the County of Kent have no interest in enforcing federal immigration law, defendants oppose plaintiffs’ request to proceed pseudonymously in this dispute because this is not the type of exceptional case where the First Amendment and common-law rights of access of the citizens of Kent County can be trumped by plaintiffs’ privacy interests,” the court filing says.
An attorney for the couples says who the plaintiffs are is not as important at the issues themselves.
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