The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to a Legislature-backed ballot initiative that would change requirements for legislative term limits.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The governor will ask the Michigan Supreme Court Thursday to declare abortion protected under the state constitution and invalidate a 1931 law that make abortion a crime if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
New state House maps appear to be set for the next decade after the Michigan Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit alleging they will create an unfair partisan advantage for Republican candidates.
In a rare move, Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel argued before the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that could define anti-discrimination protections for years.
Michigan Supreme Court hears oral arguments over racial composition of new districts. Makers of the maps say minorities don’t need to be in majority to elect candidates.
Read the seven memos Bridge Michigan and other news outlets sued to make public. Most materials discuss the Voting Rights Act and drawing of majority-minority districts.
Bridge Michigan was among several media organizations that sued the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission for its failure to make public a private hearing and refusing to release secret legal memos related to its work.
The decision by the state’s top court will determine whether the public gets to see memos the redistricting commission used to help draw political boundaries.
In lawsuit response, the group contends that memos about minority representation are protected under attorney-client privilege, and releasing them is a ‘direct threat.’