a Michigan State University law professor who studies law and religion. “These all have some reasonably significant stakes involved.” That’s part of a recent trend on a Supreme Court that is ...

A Michigan law criminalizing making terroristic threats is unconstitutional because it doesn’t require prosecutors to prove a defendant disregarded the risk that a message would be viewed as promising ...

East Lansing has lost a Michigan Supreme Court case that could cost the city millions in damages. The case started in 2020, when lawyer and East Lansing resident James Heos sued the city in a ...

The Michigan Supreme Court has decided not to pick up the case, denying the city’s motion to appeal the Michigan Appeals Court decision to release its policy in its entirety. The state’s ...

The Michigan Supreme Court released an opinion yesterday holding that a municipality may not disguise a tax by imposing a utilities franchise fee upon consumers through a utilities franchise ...

A former Michigan Supreme Court justice would like to see the end of so-called "fictional pleas" that allow defendants to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit so they can be eligible for ...

The changes are brought on by a 2024 Michigan Supreme Court ruling that found the state Legislature, controlled by Republicans at the time, acted unconstitutionally in 2018 when it adopted a pair ...

And there's nobody there.'" The new regulations are partially the result of a July 31 Michigan Supreme Court ruling. In a 4-3 decision, the justices decided that six years earlier in 2018 ...

Still image of Justice Kyra Harris Bolden, who was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court by ... [+] Governor Gretchen Whitmer, making her the first Black woman to serve on the state's highest court.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law passed in Congress that bans TikTok, which could lead to 3.7 million users in Michigan losing the use of the app as soon as Sunday.

Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s decisions. By Adam Liptak ...

Lawmakers are expected to vote on them as early as next week. Over the summer the Michigan Supreme Court issued an opinion finding that 2018’s GOP-controlled Legislature subverted the rights of ...