Michigan’s highest court could decide this week whether a ballot petition ensuring abortion rights should be presented to voters in November. Abortion rights and anti-abortion forces are flooding the court with legal briefs over word spacing.
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735K signed abortion-rights petition. How word spaces may keep it off ballot
It’s a kerning kerfuffle caused by the word ‘the.’ A debate about whether formatting should derail a constitutional amendment ballot measure is headed to the Michigan Supreme Court.
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Michigan must disclose billions in GM tax credits, Supreme Court rules
In a decision transparency advocates are celebrating, Michigan must disclose the full value of tax credits it awarded to the automaker more than a decade ago but still owes on.
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Supreme Court: Flint water indictments against Rick Snyder, others invalid
The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously rejected the use of a one-judge grand jury by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office to indict the ex-governor and other Flint water crisis defendants. Snyder’s lawyers blasted prosecutors as “vindictive.”
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Abortion providers may face charges in Kent, Jackson counties, attorney says
An injunction suspending enforcement of Michigan’s 1931 ban on abortions only applies to the state, an attorney for prosecutors contends, revealing the tenuousness of the law after the Supreme Court decision.
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Abortion rivals say Roe reversal could have surprising impact in Michigan
Barbara Listing of Right to Life and Renee Chelian, an abortion-rights advocate, have battled for more than four decades over abortion access. But they agree that a rejection of Roe v. Wade may change Michigan abortion policy in unexpected ways.
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‘It is finally over’: MI Supreme Court denies Larry Nassar’s final appeal
The disgraced sports doctor’s survivors expressed feeling relieved that the Michigan Supreme Court denied his final appeal. The high court upheld the sentence, even as it joined in criticizing the trial judge’s conduct at sentencing.
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Michigan Supreme Court upholds disqualification of GOP candidates
Republican gubernatorial candidates down to five after court rejects lawsuits to allow James Craig, Perry Johnson and Michael Markey on the ballot despite forged petition signatures.
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James Craig loses ballot access suit; Johnson appeals to Michigan Supreme Court
The former Detroit Police chief fails in his bid to make the August primary ballot despite a signature forgery scandal. Other Republicans file emergency appeals to the Michigan Supreme Court.
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Zoom hearings could become permanent for Michigan courts, burps and all
The Michigan Supreme Court is considering new rules to keep remote hearings an option for some cases. Some worry that online behavior, from smoking to farting, makes a mockery of the courts.