A ballot proposal to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Michigan is gaining steam as the group raises more money and boasts it has gathered half of the signatures needed to put the issue before voters in 2018.
Read MoreA federal judge in DC declined to block President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission from collecting data on voters from 50 states in a ruling on Monday, handing a win to an administration inundated by lawsuits over the commission's request.
Read MoreA jury in northern Lower Michigan today convicted 84-year-old bar owner Larry Sevenski of assaulting a police officer during a St. Patrick's Day altercation with Michigan State Police troopers. Sevenski landed in the hospital and his arrest outraged the small community west of Gaylord.
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He could be out from behind bars as soon as Oct. 1 — but that doesn't mean he's walking out a free man.
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O.J. Simpson will go before a parole board in a hearing to decide whether he can be released from prison.
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Lawyers for the Trump administration went back to the Supreme Court again late Friday in the ongoing battle over President Donald Trump's travel ban -- this time asking the justices to resolve the uncertainty created by last month's ruling on which foreign nationals are exempt from the ban.
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The former Detroit drug dealer dubbed “White Boy Rick” has waited nearly 30 years to hear these words: he will be paroled from prison.
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Former Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar agreed to plead guilty to federal child pornography charges.
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In 2015, the United States Supreme Court gave credence to Jay-Z's 99 Problem's "infamous" second verse by holding: "Absent reasonable suspicion, police extension of a traffic stop in order to conduct a dog sniff violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures,"
Yesterday, the Michigan Court of Appeals confirmed that a prolonged traffic stop resulting in a search of an automobile, wholly based on a "hunch" of a police officer, is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
If your rights have been violated, don't plead guilty or call a TV attorney, call a real attorney, 248-850-5824.
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The court is now on its summer recess. The justices will meet next for their September 25 conference.
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The Supreme Court unanimously agreed Monday to let President Trump's immigration travel ban go into effect for some travelers, reversing the actions of lower federal courts that had put the controversial policy completely on hold.
However, the injunctions remain in place with respect to parties similarly situated to Doe, Dr. Elshikh, and Hawaii. "This means that §2(c) may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States."
But, not someone who "enters into a relationship simply to avoid §2(c): For example, a nonprofit group devoted to immigration issues may not contact foreign nationals from the designated countries, add them to client lists, and then secure their entry by claiming injury from their exclusion."
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case challenging whether a Colorado cake shop has to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The justices in the case — known as Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights — are being asked whether shop owner Jack Philips has to make a cake for Charlie Craig and David Mulliuns' same-sex marriage under Colorado's public accommodations law.
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All three cases started with a traffic stop.
A black man is pulled over by a police officer.
Why?
He was missing a front license plate. For suspicious activity. Because a cop thought the driver looked like a robbery suspect.
Regardless of the reason, the outcome was the same for Samuel DuBose, Sylville Smith and Philando Castile -- none of them survived.
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Ivanka Trump must give a deposition in a lawsuit by an Italian shoemaker claiming her fashion label copied its designs, a federal judge has ruled.
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An Ohio judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case against former University of Cincinnati police Officer Ray Tensing, who fatally shot Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop in July 2015.
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The confession of a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” was improperly obtained and he should be released from prison, a three-judge federal appeals panel ruled Thursday.
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In 2002, Lester Packingham became a convicted sex offender at the age of 21, after he pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with a child – having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Packingham got into hot water with the law again in 2010, when he posted on Facebook to thank God for having a traffic ticket dismissed. After a police officer saw his post, Packingham was prosecuted and convicted under a North Carolina law that makes it a felony for a convicted sex offender to use social-networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, that allow minors to create accounts. Today Packingham has something else to be grateful for, and he can take to social media to express that appreciation, because the Supreme Court agreed with him that the North Carolina law violates the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
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If you're like most Americans, you are probably wondering, "What is the Emoluments Clause?"
The so-called "Emoluments Clause" or "Nobility Clause" provides that: "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
Well known U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit filed suit against President Donald Trump alleging that payments by foreign governments to Trump’s businesses violated the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Trump travel ban loses in second appeals court.
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