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.
R & B star Mary J. Blige has again won a lawsuit filed in Michigan court claiming copyright infringement for her 2001 song Family Affair. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling from the federal district court in Ann Arbor that Blige and Universal Records had not stolen the song from Michigan producers. [...]
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the 30-year sentence imposed by a Michigan court on Robert Shafer, who pleaded guilty to multiple charges of producing child pornography using children from the day care center he owned in Van Buren County. Shafer appealed the sentence saying that it was too long under the federal sentencing [...]
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a case to proceed against a nurse from a Westland jail for being “deliberately indifferent” to the medical needs of a man being transferred from one jail to another while suffering from alcohol withdrawal. The man, Larry Bertl, died shortly after arriving at the [...]
Activists are hailing the recent ruling in a bullying lawsuit against the Hudson School District, saying it makes clear that districts have to look seriously at the effects of harassment in schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal petition in a case involving a proposed Indian casino in the West Michigan community of Gun Lake. The move effectively ends the legal battle between the Gun Lake Tribe and a group called Michigan Gambling Opposition, which has tried for years to block the building of [...]
A three judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against prominent attorney and former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Geoffrey Fieger in a case challenging sanctions brought against him by the Attorney Grievance Board for vile comments he made about the Michigan Supreme Court after they ruled against him. The ruling dismisses the [...]
A court panel has ruled in favor of a student who claims that officials at Hudson Middle School in southeast Michigan’s Lenawee County were deliberately indifferent and failed to take any action to stop systemic bullying from other students — and even from faculty members.
In an unusual and unexpected ruling, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a Michigan law that forbids having a “dangling ornament or other suspended object that obstructs the vision of the driver of the vehicle.”
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling upholding the editorial practices of Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) in a directory they publish listing companies and individuals who can help applicants for unemployment benefits.
The Washington Post reports that George W. Bush has been enormously successful at placing his picks on federal appeals courts and that has led to Republican domination of most of the nation’s judicial circuits. The article begins by focusing on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Michigan, noting a particular case where the [...]
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