Blog tagged as Courts

A federal appellate court declined to hear Enbridge Energy’s petition for an en banc hearing challenging a ruling that the Attorney General’s lawsuit to shutter Line 5 be returned to the state court.

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.

The Michigan Supreme Court split along party lines on Wednesday to rule that the Republican-led Legislature’s adopt-and-amend tactic for minimum wage and paid sick leave initiatives in 2018 was unconstitutional.