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 has ruled that Meijer can be prosecuted criminally for violations of state campaign laws, overturning a lower court ruling to the contrary. This is the latest development in a complex series of court cases involving the retail giant’s illegal and secret backing of a recall referendum in Acme Township after [...]
In what may be an important precedent, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a man arrested for a so-called “Romeo and Juliet” relationship cannot be listed on the state’s sex offender registry because doing so would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Opponents of a nickel sulfide mine planned by Rio Tinto Corp.’s Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. for public land on the Yellow Dog Plain near Lake Superior are seeking a chance to argue a fundamental point — that by issuing permits for the mine and leasing 120 acres of public land to the company, the state has failed in its job to steward natural resources in the public interest.
A Michigan Court of Appeals in Ingham County has rejected a claim of immunity by the state of Michigan and allowed a challenge filed by the ACLU on behalf of a class of indigent defendants against the state’s public defender system to go to trial. The court’s full ruling can be read here (PDF).
A politically active Baptist preacher from Benton Harbor, Rev. Edward Pinkney, remained under near constant house arrest on Tuesday as a crowd gathered at the Michigan Court of Appeals in Grand Rapids for oral arguments in appeals of his politically charged conviction on election fraud charges for which he was given probation and the 3-to-10-year prison sentence he received when a judge said he violated probation by writing an article for a Chicago newspaper.
A Michigan appeals court has overturned part of a $317,000 jury award to a woman in a lawsuit against Mt. Hope Church, a megachurch located near Lansing, for negligence, libel and slander. The court upheld the $40,000 award for negligence but ordered a new trial on the other claims. See the full ruling here.
The Michigan Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court order that upheld the state’s requirement that residents provide their Social Security number (SSN) when applying for a state driver’s license.
The Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club recently won a victory when the Michigan Court of Appeals agreed that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) must enforce the runoff standards from the federal Clean Water Act on factory farms in Michigan. The case, Sierra Club Mackinac Chapter v. Department of Environmental Quality, dealt with [...]
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