Michigan Court of Claims

The state argues the new tax is not an amendment to the marijuana initiative, but a new and separate law to raise revenue for roads

The industry claims the wholesale tax will drive its customers to the illegal market, shut down legal businesses, and cost jobs in the nascent marijuana sector

The state has argued in its written briefs that the purpose of the wholesale is to generate $420 million for roads and not to regulate marijuana

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is suing the state over money set aside for ballparks in Lansing and Utica

The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity is the named defendant

Almost a year after 15 year old Amillier Penn was shot and killed, the GRPD say they have enough evidence to charge another teen with the murder, a Michigan Court of Claims judge has struck down many abortion restrictions, and more.

A handful of restrictive abortion laws remain on the books

Judge Sima Patel wrote an opinion that declared laws including 24-hour waiting periods and a ban on certain licensed professionals dispensing abortion drugs likely violate the reproductive rights amendment adopted by voters in 2022

The Michigan Court of Claims has refused throw out a lawsuit that seeks to keep Donald Trump off the Michigan presidential ballot.

The Michigan Court of Claims is fast-tracking a legal challenge to seeking to block former President Donald Trump from appearing on the statewide ballot.