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 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case involving a religious school in Michigan that parochial school teachers who teach predominately secular subjects are not covered by the ministerial exception and therefore federal anti-discrimination law applies to them. You can see the full ruling here (PDF). In the case, EEOC v. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical [...]
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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