HowAppealing

MARCH 22, 2023

“Supreme Court rules for deaf student who says school district failed him; Ruling says young man can pursue Americans with Disabilities Act claim even as he seeks help via Individuals with Disabilities Education Act”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. Supreme Court. ” Justice Neil M.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Michigan Supreme Court recently ruled in four cases, including People v. Parks and People v. Poole, that sentences of mandatory life without parole (LWOP) for murders committed.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected Thursday a challenge to the mandatory membership requirements imposed by the State Bar of Michigan. Lucille Taylor, a lawyer from Michigan, challenged the state bar membership mandate on the grounds that it violates her freedom of association.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear the appeal in Balow v. Michigan State University. In 2020, Michigan State University (MSU) discontinued its varsity women’s and men’s swimming and diving teams due to budget cuts. They requested the court reinstate the teams.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. Zeoli , Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan and Shannon Frattaroli , Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University. . He did this based on a 2022 U.S. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Law 360

MAY 19, 2023

The firm Butzel Long cannot defend itself from a malpractice suit using a time-barring statute of repose that hadn't been enacted as law yet at the time when the firm signed a tolling agreement with its former client, a Michigan appellate court ruled.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Bakke , the Supreme Court ruled that the use of racial quotas in college admissions is unconstitutional. Interestingly, the Bakke Court provided the Harvard “plus” program, which considers race only as a plus factor, as a model for an acceptable consideration of race in college admissions. A UCLA-led study found that “??in

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Law 360

JANUARY 31, 2023

Insurers for a glass manufacturer cannot pursue most of their claims against two contractors over a 2017 factory explosion, a Michigan federal court ruled, saying waiver of subrogation clauses in the underlying service contracts bar all causes of action except those arising from gross negligence.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 12, 2021

* NJ Supreme Court rules Smith & Wesson has to disclose how they market their guns. Reuters ] * Will do good work for food: Michigan Worker's Comp Lawyers is offering a scholarship for law students come 2022. ABA Journal ] * People who thought the 2020 election was a hoax are running for positions at the Holocaust Memorial.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A Michigan college student cannot proceed with a lawsuit against two federal officers who tackled and punched him after mistaking him for a fugitive, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court unanimously found that the man’s claims against the officers are disqualified by the “judgment.

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Law 360

MARCH 14, 2023

The Michigan Supreme Court says it will let a lower-court ruling stand and not review whether an insurer has standing to challenge a medical clinic's compliance with business incorporation laws as a defense against having to pay no-fault auto claims.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Michigan college student is unable to proceed with a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) lawsuit against two federal officers who tackled him after mistaking him for a fugitive in 2014. ” The case now returns to the Sixth Circuit for further consideration on this issue.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

The Michigan Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that defendants charged in connection with the Flint water crisis are entitled to preliminary examinations. Baird and Nicolas Lyon, were charged for their roles in the Flint water crisis under Michigan’s “one-man grand jury statute.”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Estelle v. But fifty years later, prisons seem to have deteriorated to Attica-era conditions, writes University of Michigan Professor Heather Ann Thompson for Time.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The question came to the court in a case filed against Virginia Tech by Speech First, a group that describes its mission as putting “colleges and universities on notice that shutting down unwanted speech will no longer be tolerated.” A federal district court ruled that the group lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Since a 1976 Supreme Court ruling , incarcerated individuals are the only group of people in the United States to have a constitutional right to health care. Under Estelle v Gamble , being deprived of “reasonably adequate medical care violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.”.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 10, 2024

Supreme Court ruled that public officials may be held liable for their social media activity in certain circumstances. In 2014, Freed updated his Facebook page to reflect his position as city manager of Port Huron, Michigan. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. In Lindke v. Freed , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Bollinger , 539 U.S. 306 (2003).

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

The doctrine, created by a 1982 Supreme Court ruling meant to protect government employees from frivolous lawsuits, is frequently used by police and other law enforcement officials to head off lawsuits over excessive use of force or misconduct. He is still waiting—eight years after the incident—for a trial that might never happen.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court ruled that states could only convict defendants of serious offenses with a unanimous jury verdict. Issue : Whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Ramos v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan. After Ramos , criminal defendant asks justices to preserve non-unanimous acquittals in Puerto Rico.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2023

Since the 1970s, the Supreme Court has ruled that race could not be a determinative or major factor in admissions. Bakke, the Court ruled against affirmative action. In Regents of the University of California v. In his plurality decision, then-Justice Lewis F. In the 2003 decision in Grutter v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 9, 2021

S. _ (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act barred college student James King’s claims of police brutality. The Court unanimously held that the district court’s dismissal of King’s claims under the FTCA triggered the “judgment bar” in 28 U.S.C. In Brownback v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As a teenage congressional page, I was one of the faces in that crowd gathered around the court in October 1977 to watch history being made. In Bakke, the court ruled against affirmative action in a fractured decision. Back then, the justices considered two different admissions programs at the University of Michigan.

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JURIST

MAY 29, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Thursday that Michigan’s redistricting commission can bar people with political connections from serving on the commission. ” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson called the decision a “victory for democracy.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Additionally, California and Michigan each have November 8 ballot proposals similar to Vermont’s to amend their state constitutions to protect an individual’s reproductive freedom. Brooke Chmura is a 3L at Vermont Law and Graduate School. If Kansas can do it, so can Vermont.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. In the Michigan case, six men are charged with a conspiracy that involved kidnapping Whitmer but news outlets like BuzzFeed News have raised serious concerns over how much of the conspiracy was directed and facilitated by the FBI.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Share In 2003, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in its admissions process as part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. Waxman pointed to the lower courts’ rulings in Harvard’s favor.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

He once hosted a former student from Florida at his lakeside vacation house in Michigan, where he claimed on his Facebook page that they “solved a murder.” A police chief in Michigan said Harpster’s class paid off immediately after a man called 911 and said he had just found his mother and sister dead. “He He did it!!”.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the district court granted Luxshare’s request to subpoena ZF Automotive US, Inc., a Michigan-based indirect subsidiary, on the ground that a private arbitration counts as a “foreign or international tribunal” for Section 1782. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the CADA.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 17, 2021

The litigation over the 2020 election seem to be continuing with a ruling this week from Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) broke state law in issuing new rules on absentee balloting before the 2020 election. Here is the opinion: Genetski v. Benson, No.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2021

” In 2014, the Court ruled 6-2 in Schuette v. Bamn , that Michigan’s constitutional amendment banning affirmative action was constitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote in 2007 that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

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Patently O

MARCH 24, 2022

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. . ” The revived Arthrex case raises temporary appointments issues and asks whether Dir.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Yesterday, a Michigan judge was the latest to dismiss the effort to prevent voters from being able to vote for Trump. Judge Redford also rejected the effort of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) under state law to remove candidates from the ballot based on that provision.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A lower court found the governor’s mandate “has effectively foreclosed the pathway to seeking a religious accommodation that is guaranteed under Title VII.”. Likewise, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this month affirmed such a preliminary injunction against Western Michigan University.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Although it is possible to make the case that cert before judgment was warranted in at least some of these cases, it is difficult to see how it was warranted in all of them — especially given the high bar that the court has historically applied for bypassing ordinary appellate review.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. What we do know comes mostly from self-reporting, industry reports, and journalists.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2022

For decades, the court has left this issue a muddle of conflicting and vague 5-4 rulings. Much of the division is based on the use of diversity rationales after the court ruled in 1978, in Regents of the University of California v. It is not clear how far the majority may be willing to go in these cases.

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