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.
Eastern Michigan University is being sued by a conservative legal group for allegedly dismissing a graduate student because of her views on homosexuality. According to The Ann Arbor News, the Alliance Defense Fund Center is suing EMU in Detroit’s U.S. District Court because it dismissed Julia Ward from the counseling graduate program after Ward referred a gay client to another counselor because she believes homosexuality is “immoral sexual conduct, and cannot affirm or validate that behavior or otherwise use her counseling skills and abilities to facilitate homosexual behavior, without violating her sincere religious beliefs,” the lawsuit said.
The suit alleges EMU’s dismissal of Ward is violates her civil rights because it is tantamount to discriminating against Ward on the basis of religion.
A letter sent to Ward by the Ypsilanti university said she violated the American Counseling Association’s code of conduct that prohibits counselors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
Ward’s attorneys want the district court to issue an injunction to have her reinstated in the program and want compensatory damages.
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