Appeals Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled limiting one’s speech requires the prosecution to prove a guilty mindset. Michigan’s law doesn’t explicitly mention that

The challenge argues the Legislature failed to adopt the bill with the three-fourths House and Senate supermajorities required by the MI Constitution to alter a voter-approved initiative

The appeals court says “vulgarity trumps politics, even when vulgarity is cloaked in innuendo”

The defense could still appeal the matter to the Michigan Supreme Court

The Michigan Court of Appeals will hear arguments Tuesday in the state Senate’s lawsuit against the state House of Representatives

Defendant Michael Kvasnicka was charged based on a social media message sent to a student saying he would attack her school

The decision says the family did not miss a deadline to file their claim. That decision reverses a lower court ruling

The opinion held that storing data is not medical care and there is no privacy violation because the data is kept anonymous

James and Jennifer Crumbley are challenging their involuntary manslaughter convictions on the grounds that the prosecution never revealed agreements made with key witnesses

A spokesperson for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said her office will appeal “this unfortunate decision”