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.
Attorneys from the Thomas More Law Center, representing four Christian missionaries arrested in June while preaching to a predominately Muslim crowd at the Dearborn International Arab Festival, asked the judge in the case to dismiss those charges on Monday. The Detroit News reports:
A Sept. 20 trial is still scheduled following a court hearing today for four Christian missionaries charged with disturbing the peace at the Arab International Festival in June…
“It’s clear that we didn’t violate any laws — the city knows that,” said Qureshi, who with Wood formed a Christian organization called the Acts 17 Apologetics. “They’re reaching so far to even find a base for a trial.”
Robert Muise, an attorney with the Thomas More Law Center who is representing the four, sought to have the case dismissed today. He said the group’s arrest violated their First Amendment rights to free speech.
Judge Mark Somers asked for additional filings from the attorneys before making a ruling on the motion to dismiss. The Michigan Messenger reported several weeks ago that the arrests, and other actions taken by the Dearborn police, appear to violate the First Amendment in a number of ways according to constitutional law scholars and the ACLU of Michigan.
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