A Wayne County judge on Sept. 14 declined to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by a Grosse Pointe billionaire and school ...

The 6th Circuit ruled that a quadriplegic foster parent applicant could bring ADA and Rehabilitation Act claims, but summary ...

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Where a plaintiff law firm has brought suit over comments made by Michigan’s attorney general and its former civil rights director, the dismissal of the complaint should be affirmed because of a ...

Where a plaintiff has plausibly alleged that a defendant officer’s repeated refusal of the plaintiff’s requests to use his own restroom rendered the plaintiff’s seizure unreasonable under the Fourth ...

Where a prison hostage training exercise left a participating prison employee injured, a grant of summary judgment in favor ...

Where the defendant, a Michigan district court judge, has been sued over actions he took against a 15-year-old plaintiff who ...

Where a petitioner who pleaded no contest to first-degree criminal sexual conduct was denied habeas corpus relief, that decision should be affirmed because the Wayne County Circuit Court did not ...

Where the Hamtramck City Council passed a resolution restricting the flags allowed to fly from city-owned flagpoles, a grant of summary judgment in favor of the municipal defendants should be affirmed ...

Where a plaintiff who was terminated from his position as the Fire Chief of Cincinnati sued the city and its codefendant manager for violations of his federal and state procedural due process rights ...

Where a plaintiff alleged an unconstitutional taking of its property and a violation of due process, the plaintiff’s claims are ripe for judicial resolution so they should not have been dismissed.

Where medical providers brought state-law claims of negligent misrepresentation and promissory estoppel based upon the defendant insurer’s alleged misstatements about the applicable reimbursement rate ...