Blog categorized as Courts

The FBI says a North Branch man who wrote a first-person account under a pen name about the Jan. 6 riot is now facing charges.

A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager to be handcuffed and detained for appearing to fall asleep in his courtroom has been temporarily removed from his docket.

Candidate Alexandria Taylor called Justice Kyra Bolden a “DEI appointee," Appellate Judge Mark Boonstra jabbed at opponent Andrew Fink and 2022 Attorney General candidate Matt DePerno was a no-show for a Supreme Court candidate forum.

The large number of election-related Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and “frivolous” lawsuits can be a strain on the state’s funding sources, Attorney General Dana Nessel told the National Press Foundation (NPF) fellows earlier last week.

A now-76-year-old Canton man lost, again, his federal court case stemming from a $400 traffic ticket he earned by trying to drive around a police barricade of a fatal traffic crash.