LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder last week appointed Judge David Viviano to the state Supreme Court, taking the place of former Justice Diane Hathaway.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Legal Newsline) -- Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway pleaded guilty Tuesday to committing bank fraud in connection with property owned in Grosse Pointe Park.
Brewer LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - At its state convention in Lansing over the weekend, the Michigan Democratic Party nominated three women to run for the state Supreme Court.
Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a union-backed proposal that would add the right to collective bargaining for public and private sector employees to the state constitution should be added to the state's November ballot.
Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The owners of a building that housed a gym are not liable for a woman's back injuries, which she incurred after falling on an icy sidewalk, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled last week.
Chief Justice Robert P. Young Jr. LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court, in an order last month, said it will hear an appeal by one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers in a case over a state foreclosure law.
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway once took the stance that a woman who was battling breast cancer and was abandoned by her husband was still liable for the entire amounts of two mortgages.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - An appeals court in California has ruled that Ford Motor Company had no duty to protect a woman from asbestos brought home on the clothing of her brother and father.
Hathaway DETROIT (Legal Newsline) - The independent state agency tasked with investigating judicial misconduct and recommending discipline will not say if it is looking into allegations that a sitting Michigan Supreme Court justice engaged in suspicious real estate transactions.
Hathaway DETROIT (Legal Newsline) - Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert P. Young Jr. is asking a fellow justice to respond to recent allegations that she engaged in suspicious real estate transactions.
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider two auto insurance cases in which individuals drove their family members' cars -- though forbidden to do so -- and injured themselves.
Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court last week ordered a district court judge be removed from office for misconduct, including "fixing" traffic citations issued to himself, his wife and his staff.
Snyder LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not hear Gov. Rick Snyder's appeal on a controversial state employee pay deduction plan.
Markman LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court earlier this month approved most of Gov. Rick Snyder's controversial plan to tax pensions.
Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan's House Judiciary Committee is taking up a plan that calls for eliminating a significant number of judgeships statewide.
Young LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan must eliminate 45 trial court judgeships as a first step toward "rebalancing the workload" of the state's courts, according to an annual judicial report released last week.
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer for two attorneys accused of charging excessive fees that drained the Rosa Parks estate said in a filing Monday that he wants the Michigan Supreme Court to stay out of the fight.
Kelly LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote, has refused to throw out a woman's lawsuit against a Texas Roadhouse restaurant after one of its toilet paper dispensers allegedly broke her hand.
