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.
In the wake of last fall’s battle for Cliff Taylor’s seat on the Michigan Supreme Court, which saw millions of dollars spent by the candidates, the parties and political action committees, Cooley Law School hosted a symposium last week that focused on the corrupting influence of money in judicial elections in the 39 states that elect judges.
AP reports that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer. This almost certainly means that she will have to step down from the court. No matter how early they caught it, pancreatic cancer is the most deadly form of the disease and only 5% of its victims make it past the first [...]
A new study by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, a legal scholar at the Michigan State University College of Law, concludes that Indian tribes are almost universally denied a hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court when they file for the Court to hear a case. The abstract of that study says:
Chief Justice Cliff Taylor worked his final day on the state Supreme Court last week. The woman who defeated him, Diane Hathaway, will be sworn in this week and the balance of power on the court should shift as a result.
Politico has an article about the American Constitution Society and how Obama’s election has brought this group to the forefront. The ACS is the liberal answer to the Federalist Society, which was founded by conservative law professors and scholars to help train the next generation of attorneys and influence the public debate over legal issues. [...]
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 [...]
But might prevent further rightward shift In the first two parts of this series, we looked at the precarious balance on the Supreme Court as it stands currently and at the kinds of justices we could expect John McCain to nominate if he wins the election in November. Now we’ll look at the impact that [...]
Role of religious right-wingers In Part One, we looked at the current state of the Supreme Court and the fact that the next president will likely determine the future of the court for the next few decades. In particular we looked at the fact that the next two or three vacancies on the court are [...]
LANSING — Ingham County Circuit Judge Beverly Nettles-Nickerson lied, made false accusations and failed to do her job on the court, according to a Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission investigation. Leopold P. Borrello, the commission’s master judge, started a special series of hearings on Nettles-Nickerson’s case in September. Based on testimony presented during those hearings, he [...]
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