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.
A federal court in Detroit has granted a preliminary injunction against the SMART bus system, ordering them to allow an anti-Muslim advertisement to be placed on buses pending the outcome of a full trial on the issue.
A federal district court has ruled against a Michigan man in a lawsuit he filed challenging the federal government’s bailout of insurance giant AIG on establishment grounds because one of the company’s subsidiaries sells “Sharia-compliant” insurance.
A federal judge in Detroit dismissed a lawsuit challenging the health insurance mandate provision in the health care reform bill passed by Congress earlier this year. The suit was filed by the Thomas More Law Center, the Christian legal group based in Ann Arbor and founded by Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan, on behalf of themselves [...]
Earlier this year a group of plaintiffs from Michigan, represented by the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, passed in 2009, violated their religious freedom and freedom of speech rights. The judge dismissed the case this week.
Attorneys from the Thomas More Law Center, representing four Christian missionaries arrested in June while preaching to a predominately Muslim crowd at the Dearborn International Arab Festival, asked the judge in the case to dismiss those charges on Monday. The Detroit News reports:
The first legal challenge to the historic health care reform bill passed earlier this year to be heard in court is not the one filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and more than a dozen other state AGs, it’s one filed by the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center on behalf of several Michigan [...]
For the second year in a row civil libertarians have accused the Dearborn Police Department of violating the First Amendment by arresting Christian missionaries talking and handing out literature to predominately Muslim attendees of the Dearborn International Arab Festival.
The Thomas More Law Center, representing the plaintiffs in a case against the SMART bus system in the Metro Detroit area for refusing to air an anti-Islam advertisement on the side of their buses, has asked a federal district court for a preliminary injunction in the case pending trial. The ad in question, sponsored by [...]
A lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center, created by Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan, on behalf of a Christian ministry against a Dearborn Muslim festival is over. A federal district court judge in Detroit handed down a ruling for summary judgment in favor of the city and festival organizers, ruling that the restrictions on [...]
The Thomas More Law Center has filed suit on behalf of clients against the SMART bus system in Southeast Michigan for refusing to run ads on the sides of their buses that encourage people to leave Islam. The ad, sponsored by the conservative group Freedom Defense Initiative, says: “Fatwa on your head? Is your family [...]
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