Blog tagged as Courts

An appeals panel held Michigan’s statute that makes false threats of terrorism a crime is unconstitutional.

East Lansing's 5 percent franchise fee for Lansing Board of Water & Light (LBWL) customers is a tax, the Michigan Supreme Court held on Monday.

An appeals panel affirmed the conviction and sentence of a Battle Creek mother who cyberbullied a 19-year-old in 2020.

An assistant county prosecutor asked the Michigan Supreme Court not to expand the eligibility of “juvenile lifers” to seek possible parole to 19- and 20-year-olds.

Michigan's requirement that a certain amount of the Lower Peninsula's electricity must be generated within the borders of the Lower Peninsula violates the U.S. Commerce Clause and can't be enforced, a U.S. appellate court ruled Thursday.