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.
The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office has set up checkpoints to search cars for drugs around the city of Flint, something that legal experts say is almost certain to be found unconstitutional by a federal court if challenged.
The ACLU of Michigan is demanding that the Michigan State Police turn over documents relating to a technology they possess that allows them to scan and copy a wide range of data from cell phones without the owner of the phone even knowing they’re being searched.
An Ingham County Circuit Court Judge has ruled that the Capitol Area District Library can ban open carrying of firearms — at least for now.
The ACLU of Michigan announced Tuesday that they had filed a federal lawsuit against the Detroit Public Schools for conducting mass searches of students without any particular suspicion of wrongdoing. They are also asking that the school system be held in contempt of court for violating a court order against mass searches resulting from a [...]
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.”
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected an attempt by the Bush administration to weaken constitutional protections by allowing the government to obtain data from cell phone companies on individual users without a warrant.
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