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 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 wrongful termination suit in which Ave Maria School of Law and its founder Tom Monaghan are claiming that the law school is really a religious organization and its professors are ministers has caught the attention of the National Law Journal. Author Tresa Baldes quotes the plaintiffs’ attorney on the claim:
In an ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, Catholic philanthropist Tom Monaghan and the Ave Maria School of Law that he founded are claiming that the school is a purely religious organization and therefore exempt from court scrutiny of its hiring and firing decisions.
Ave Maria, the Catholic city in Florida founded by Michigan native and Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan, continues to garner scrutiny in the press. The Naples Daily News has a three-part expose looking at the structure of the town’s government, including links to the founding documents of incorporation, that calls the city’s government structure undemocratic and [...]
It’s been seven years since Tom Monaghan, who founded Domino’s Pizza in Ann Arbor, piqued the world’s curiosity by announcing that he had bought 5,000 acres in Florida and intended to turn it into a model Catholic city. Today the town of Ave Maria, slow to attract residents, remains mostly a vision in Monaghan’s head. [...]
While mainstream media continues to cover the U.S. attorney firings, it turns out there is more politicization going on right here in Michigan.
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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