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A state law that allowed the state health director to issue pandemic-related orders is “extremely broad” and an “unconstitutional delegation of legislative power,” the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

The Michigan Supreme Court agreed Wednesday morning to hear arguments on whether the Legislature can adopt a citizens' initiative and then amend it in the same session.

The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission is seeking an independent review of the racial composition of the judges about whom the Commission receives complaints and the disposition of those complaints.

A Belleville man accused of conducting surveillance near the Governor’s vacation home entered a guilty plea Wednesday.

The Michigan Supreme Court has disposed of about half of the cases it had finished at this time last year and the year before that, but the word from inside the high court is that justices are not concerned and that there's confidence that everything will be adjudicated by its July 31 deadline.