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.
Lawyers for medical marijuana users have filed suit in Oakland County Circuit Court to challenge ordinances in Bloomfield Township reports MLive.com
The suit was filed by attorneys Thomas Loeb and Neil Rockind on behalf of two unnamed medical marijuana patients. At issue is an ordinance passed in Bloomfield Township in October requiring those with medical marijuana cards to register with the township police department. In addition to requiring them to register, it also prohibits patients and caregivers from growing the plant in the township.
Rockind had this to say to Hometown Life newspapers:
“We filed the suit on behalf of two township residents who are impacted by the ordinances,” Rockind said Wednesday. “We think the township ordinances are not only unconstitutional, but they directly conflict with the state law that was passed by 63 percent of the people.”
Loeb had this say:
“These people should have access to this medicine,” Loeb said in a statement issued to the public on Wednesday. “Michigan law gives them that right. Further, Michigan law protects these patients and caregivers from divulging protected and confidential information. These ordinances have taken away that confidentiality and anonymity, are entirely inconsistent with Michigan law, and should therefore be rendered unenforceable and void.”
No patients or caregivers have registered with the police, reports MLive.
This lawsuit joins suits filed by the ACLU over other ordinances.
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