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.
As the city of Dearborn prepares for another Arab International Festival in June, the police have lost another court case involving their attempts to prevent Christian missionaries from proselytizing at the annual event.
The four Christian missionaries who were arrested for — and acquitted of — disturbing the peace for preaching to predominately Muslim festival goers at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June now plan to file a lawsuit against the city of Dearborn for unlawful arrest and violating their First Amendment rights. They will be represented [...]
The four Christian missionaries arrested for disorderly conduct for preaching to a predominately Muslim crowd at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June will stand trial after the judge refused to grant a motion filed by defense attorneys to dismiss the case. The Thomas More Law Center, which is defending the missionaries, the ACLU of [...]
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:
An interesting development in the case of the four Christian missionaries arrested at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June: A Muslim attorney from Dearborn organized a rally in defense of the four missionaries at Dearborn City Hall on Monday, condemning the police for the arrest and for violating the First Amendment. The Detroit Free [...]
For the second year in a row civil libertarians have accused the Dearborn Police Department of violating the First Amendment by arresting Christian missionaries talking and handing out literature to predominately Muslim attendees of the Dearborn International Arab Festival.
An investigation into the controversial shooting of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by the Dearborn Police Department has been completed and forwarded to Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox. Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal agents during a raid on a Dearborn warehouse on October 28, 2009. The Detroit Free Press reports: Dearborn officials [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports that the Wayne County medical examiner’s office is expected to release the results of the autopsy performed on Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by Monday. Abdullah was gunned down during a raid by the FBI and the Dearborn Police Department in October. The autopsy has been completed for several weeks but [...]
DETROIT — The FBI did not ask that the autopsy report of imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah be kept secret, according to the spokeswoman for the agency’s Detroit office. But the agency can only speak to its shooting investigation, not the Dearborn Police Department’s homicide inquiry.
The Dearborn Police Department has asked Wayne County not to divulge the autopsy report of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, according to Wayne County Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel Marianne Talon. Explaining the delay on the part of the Wayne County Medical examiner’s office to decide that it would withhold the complete autopsy report, Talon said that the [...]
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