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 case of four Michigan conservative activists challenging the federal hate crimes act has gotten the support of a U.S. Congressman. U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan; as well as his co-plaintiffs in the federal case pastors Levon Yuille, Rene Ouellette [...]
A federal judge ended a lawsuit filed by the Faith Baptist Church against Waterford Township over a dispute involving the volume of the church’s band and local noise statutes. A neighbor of the church complained several times to the police about the church band playing too loudly and the police came out to investigate the [...]
The Thomas More Law Center, founded by Tom Monaghan of Domino’s Pizza fame, has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of several Michigan religious leaders against the federal government over the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was passed into law last year. The plaintiffs include Gary Glenn, president of [...]
It has not been a banner week for two governments in Macomb County. Warren officials were notified they are being sued for an incident in which a diabetic man was tasered by Warren police officers. In the meantime, the county itself is being sued for eliminating a Christmas display which depicted the birth of Jesus.
More than a year after controversy erupted over the firing of longtime wrestling coach Gerry Marszalek by Dearborn Fordson High School over allegations that one of his volunteer assistant coaches had converted one of the team members to Christianity and baptized him, Marszalek has filed a wrongful termination suit against the Dearborn Public Schools and [...]
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Michigan denied a request for a temporary restraining order filed by an Arab Christian group that sought the right to pass out literature at a major gathering of Muslims in Dearborn. Pastor George Saieg, founder of the Arabic Christian Perspective, has attended the Dearborn Arab International Festival [...]
The U.S. District Court hearing a challenge by a Michigan man against the federal government for bailing out insurance giant AIG because the company sells Shariah-compliant insurance policies to Muslims in the U.S. and abroad has denied a motion to dismiss (PDF) the suit and allowed the case to move forward.
We’re not the only ones who think the lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center over the Department of Homeland Security’s report on right-wing extremists is pointless and destined for immediate dismissal. Even Charles Johnson, one of the most prominent conservative bloggers from Little Green Footballs, calls the suit a “clown attack” and says:
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), an Ann Arbor-based Christian legal group, has filed another lawsuit against the government, this one on behalf of right-wing talk show host Michael Savage and others over a new report by the Department of Homeland Security concerning the dangers posed by right-wing extremists. You can see the full legal [...]
The Thomas More Law Center, a Christian legal group founded by Tom Monaghan of Domino’s Pizza, has signed on to represent a group of citizens in Hamtramck to oppose the city’s human rights ordinance, which includes protections for gays against discrimination. That citizens group is called Hamtramck Citizens Opposing “Special Rights” Discrimination. This group has [...]
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