Jerry Flanory doesn’t have a lawyer—yet. But after scoring a pro se civil rights victory in federal appellate court in Detroit yesterday that could soon change.
A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Muslim woman against a Michigan state-court judge who told her to remove her hijab during a name-change hearing,…
As the disgraced former mayor of Detroit faces a possible jail term for having violated his probation in a political corruption case by not making required payments toward his $1…
Benjamin Hooks, a minister, a lawyer and renowned civil rights leader who revitalized the NAACP while serving as its executive director from 1977 to 1992, died today at his home…
The Thomas M. Cooley Law School is paying $1.48 million over 11 years for naming rights to the stadium for a minor league baseball team called the Lansing Lugnuts.
The scent of litigation success isn’t a sweet smell for at least one plaintiff who recently won a $100,000 settlement in a federal Americans with Disabilities Act discrimination case.
Sentenced to 15 to 40 years after being convicted of assault with intent to commit murder by stabbing an acquaintance in his apartment in what the prosecution described as a…
A Michigan attorney accused of collaborating with four other men to run a betting scheme out of his law office and bars in Detroit and Dearborn pleaded guilty this week…
A Michigan judge had little sympathy with a potential juror who said she was late to court because she was delayed by her mother’s oral surgery and a baby-sitting issue.
Accused of including fictitious information in his book about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Japan during World War II, Charles Pellegrino is now seeing The Last Train from…
The lawyer for disgraced ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing possible disbarment on professional misconduct charges relating to his handling of the text-messaging scandal that led to Kilpatrick’s ouster.
A Michigan lawyer who formerly served as a deputy prosecutor for the city of Holland has pleaded guilty in a felony case, admitting in court this week that he made…
The Thomas More Law Center has filed a federal suit on behalf of several individuals, contending that a federal law against hate crimes violates their…