Posts tagged Supreme Court

• Georgia Supreme Court Considers Whether "Tort Reform" Equals Crooked Justice

  David Mittleman | September 16, 2009 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case that could invalidate the insurance industry's attempts to provide immunity to the most negligent doctors and deny recovery to the most...

• Insurance Companies, Not the Supreme Court, to Blame for High Rates

  David Mittleman | September 15, 2009 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It’s a common refrain we hear over and over in Michigan: My auto insurance rates are too high. Almost everyone agrees that consumers should be paying less for auto insurance, but there has...

• Michigan Supreme Court To Review Auto Injury Law

  David Mittleman | August 23, 2009 7:47 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a 4-3 order released on Thursday, the Michigan Supreme Court decided to reconsider a case that could make it easier for victims of automobile accidents to recover fair compensation for their...

• Gang of Justice at the Michigan Supreme Court works for common good, not corporate greed

  David Mittleman | August 22, 2009 10:18 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The usual suspects are lining up to take shots at the new Gang of Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court. Don't buy the hype. The latest outrage seems to be the prospect that Michigan insurance...

• California Supreme Court Allows Disabled Law Student to Take Bar Exam

  David Mittleman | August 02, 2009 1:24 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The California State Bar initially refused a disabled law student to take the bar exam, but thankfully, the State Supreme Court sent last-minute approval for her to take the test last Monday, July...

• Michigan Supreme Court rightfully decides that domestic labor has economic value

  David Mittleman | July 10, 2009 4:21 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a 4-3 decision, the new Gang of Justice at the Michigan Supreme Court stood up to conservative Justice Robert Young and ruled that backbreaking domestic work is, in fact, work. Michigan...

• Michigan Supreme Court permits lawsuit against 911 dispatcher to continue

  David Mittleman | July 09, 2009 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Michigan Supreme Court voted 4-3 today to deny the appeal of a Detroit 911 dispatcher who was accused of intentional infliction of emotional distress after she questioned a gunshot victim...

• Supreme Court rules in favor of white firefighters in Employment Discrimination Case

  David Mittleman | June 29, 2009 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor,...

• Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Teenage Student in School Strip-Search Case

  David Mittleman | June 28, 2009 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  June 25—The Supreme Court voted 8-1 that a teenage student’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the Safford Middle School when she was strip-searched in an attempt to locate...

• Michigan Supreme Court Votes to Give Judges Greater Authority in Determining Court Dress Code

  David Mittleman | June 19, 2009 8:52 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Wednesday—the Michigan Supreme Court voted 5-2 to allow judges greater authority over the way witnesses dress in court after a Muslim woman refused to remove her head veil during a small...