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 Michigan Court of Appeals Wednesday narrowed a provision of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act which allowed people arrested for possession to have an affirmative defense of medical necessity — even without a patient registry card.
A Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a man who attacked another man for unwanted sexual advances was rightly denied the use of “gay panic” as a defense strategy.
Friday was not a good day for Michigan’s controversial medical marijuana law, with two separate court cases being denied by one state court and one federal court.
In a decision that will have meaning for gay and lesbian couples who are raising children together and also for unmarried heterosexual couples, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Gross Ile woman does not have legal standing to sue for joint custody of the children she helped raise. The Detroit Free Press [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals Friday released an opinion ordering Bay County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Cass Barnes be listed as an incumbent on the upcoming judicial election ballot. The court found Cass Barnes was entitled to the listing because of both state law and the state Constitution which mandate judges who are incumbents be [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a case revolving around the question of incumbency in Bay County. At the heart of the matter is whether or not a judge, appointed to replace a retired judge, should be designated as an incumbent. The Bay City News has the scoop on this case.
The Michigan State Police say that the number of people required to register on the sex offender registry claiming to be homeless has jumped 62 percent since February. This, police say, is the result of a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling in February which said homeless sex offenders were not required to register. The Appeals [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that Practical Political Consulting, owned by Democratic Ingham County Commissioner Mark Grebner, has the right, as does anyone else, to access documents showing whether voters in the 2008 primaries voted Republican or Democrat. In the 2008 primary elections, voters at the polls could choose which party’s primary [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals issued a published opinion (pdf) on Tuesday which says convicted sex offenders who are homeless are not obligated under Michigan’s sex offender registry law to register with local law enforcement. The case the court ruled on comes out of Ingham county. There county Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III filed charges against [...]
Former math teacher Madeline Weishuhn has lost another appeal in her long-running lawsuit against against the Catholic Diocese of Lansing. Weishuhn taught math and religion classes at a Catholic elementary school in Mt. Morris, Michigan, from 1999 to 2005, when she was fired by the school after what the court calls a “series of employment-related [...]
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