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.
A leading legal scholar says controversial anti-bullying legislation passed last week in the Michigan Senate is vague, confusing and will do little to address the problem of bullying.
Sen. Roger Kahn (R-Saginaw) has submitted a bill, SB 637, that would require all public school districts in the state of Michigan to require each and every student to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day. The bill says:
The ACLU of Michigan has filed a federal lawsuit against the state and the city of Grand Rapids challenging the constitutionality of a state law that forbids panhandling in public places.
The judge in the case filed by the ACLU against Genesee county over restrictions they put on the right of residents to distribute petitions at public parks has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the county to stop enforcing such rules pending the outcome of the case.
The ACLU of Michigan has filed a lawsuit against Genesee County challenging the constitutionality of restrictions on where Michigan residents could distribute petitions to recall Gov. Rick Snyder.
The ACLU of Michigan won a victory for an anonymous blogger against a Warren city official when a Macomb County court quashed a subpoena seeking to find out the blogger’s identity from his ISP.
After two years of protests, arrests and lost legal cases for the city, this year’s Dearborn Arab International Festival featured several groups of Christian missionaries seeking to protest against Islam and encourage Muslims to convert to Christianity.
Quran-burning Florida minister Terry Jones, who was prevented from protesting outside the largest mosque in America in Dearborn recently, announced Tuesday that he will be attending the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June.
Here is the brief filed by the ACLU of Michigan in defense of the free speech rights of Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who was denied the right to protest outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn on Friday. According to TV reports, the ACLU has agreed to represent Jones in an appeal of that ruling.
In an absolutely stunning conclusion, a seven-member jury decided tonight that Pastor Terry Jones cannot hold a protest at the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn.
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