Pontiac and Flint Leaders Urge State Officials to Repeal Emergency Financial Manager Law
The bill to repel the act is currently in the Local Government and Municipal Finance Committee.
The bill to repel the act is currently in the Local Government and Municipal Finance Committee.
The reminder comes as nearly 100,000 students throughout Oakland County will be transported by school bus in the coming weeks.
The purpose of the feeding ban ordinance is to eliminate deer attraction, aiming to reduce the depredation impacts on residents and to assure the safety of the traveling public…
Troy Man Fled State, Got Served with Judgment Via Facebook (Office of Attorney General, Feb. 27, 2019) Troy, Lansing, MI- Using a savvy delivery method, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel served a default judgment for nearly $800,000 and an injunction against the owner of Fan Authentics, a purported online sports-themed retailer. Christopher Carr, 23, formerly…
Guest Legal Blog: Does Your Will Include Digital Assets? (Galloway and Collens, PLLC, March 5, 2018) When people consider estate planning and ensuring the proper distribution of personal property, most may only think about physical property. However, digital assets are also part of many Michigan estates in current times. These issues can typically be addressed…
Guest Legal Blog: Does Your Will Include Digital Assets? (Galloway and Collens, PLLC, March 5, 2018) When people consider estate planning and ensuring the proper distribution of personal property, most may only think about physical property. However, digital assets are also part of many Michigan estates in current times. These issues can typically be addressed…
Guest Legal Blog: Does Your Will Include Digital Assets? (Galloway and Collens, PLLC, March 5, 2018) When people consider estate planning and ensuring the proper distribution of personal property, most may only think about physical property. However, digital assets are also part of many Michigan estates in current times. These issues can typically be addressed…
Drive Sober Crackdown Nets 482 Arrests, Over 2,200 Speeding Tickets (Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning, Feb. 12, 2018) Southfield, MI – Law enforcement officers arrested 482 motorists during the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over drunk driving crackdown Nov. 22–Dec. 10, 2017. Of those arrested, 71 were charged under the state’s high blood alcohol…
Drive Sober Crackdown Nets 482 Arrests, Over 2,200 Speeding Tickets (Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning, Feb. 12, 2018) Southfield, MI – Law enforcement officers arrested 482 motorists during the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over drunk driving crackdown Nov. 22–Dec. 10, 2017. Of those arrested, 71 were charged under the state’s high blood alcohol…
Free Legal Aid Clinics to be Held in Southfield (Southfield Human Services, Aug. 3, 2017) SOUTHFIELD, MI — Southfield Human Services in partnership with Lakeshore Legal Aid will host free legal clinics for low income families the first Friday of each month at 9 a.m. at Southfield Human Services, 26000 Evergreen Road. Lakeshore Legal Aid…
MML#2 – Cities Facing Increasing Lawsuits over Fees (Crystal A. Proxmire, Sept. 18, 2016) Mackinaw Island, MI – Class action lawsuits against municipalities are becoming more common, particularly those over water and sewer billing. Litigation attorney Soni Mithani, a Principal at Miller Canfield in Ann Arbor, took time to educate officials about these types of…
2016 Candidate Interview David Cuttner for County Commission 17th District (video) (Crystal A. Proxmire, July 28, 2016) Southfield, MI – In the race for Oakland County Commissioner for the 17th District there are two Republicans in the primary: David A. Cuttner and Regina Brim. The Republican Primary is Aug. 2. The winner of that race…
Pre-Election Gag Order Not Enforceable Due to Agreement in Federal Court (Michigan Municipal League, April 28, 2016) LANSING, MI — U.S. District Judge John Corbett O’Meara has accepted an agreement between the Secretary of State’s office and local governments and school groups, permanently enjoining Secretary of State Ruth Johnson from enforcing a law passed in…
Reader Question: Why is it illegal to park left wheels to the curb? (Auburn Hills Police Chief Doreen Olko, April 22, 2016) Auburn Hills, MI – Some time ago I got a reader question from Crystal Proxmire publisher of the Oakland County 115 online news hub on this topic. At the time I had a stack…
New Law Clarifies What Happens to Digital Life When One Dies (video) (Crystal A. Proxmire, April 9, 2016) Huntington Woods, MI – “It used to be that we would have a shoe box full of pictures and people would pass on that shoe box full of pictures to transmit memory of their loved ones or…
Judge Debra Nance Finds Inspiration on the Way to the Bench (Wayne State University Press Release, Dec. 1, 2015) Southfield, MI – The legal career of Debra Nance has been touched by synchronicity – seemingly small, unrelated events that resonate and become meaningful. A 1999 alumna of Wayne State University Law School, today she’s a…
Law: Protecting Transgender People in the Workplace (Guest View by R. Scott Oswald and David Scher, The Employment Law Group, Nov. 1, 2015) In recent years, the United States has experienced a seismic shift in cultural attitudes towards what we have come to know as the “LGBT” community. The distinct groups that comprise this alphabet…
Divorce and Families pt 3 of 4: How Do Tweens React to Divorce? (Guest Series Part 1 of 4, Lisa Schmidt, Schmidt Law Services, March 29, 2015) How Do Tweens React to Divorce? Later elementary aged children or “Tweens” pose special problems for parents going through divorce. This third in a four part series will…
Divorce and Families pt 3 of 4: How Do Tweens React to Divorce? (Guest Series Part 1 of 4, Lisa Schmidt, Schmidt Law Services, March 29, 2015) How Do Tweens React to Divorce? Later elementary aged children or “Tweens” pose special problems for parents going through divorce. This third in a four part series will…
Michigan Same Sex Marriage Case Not Yet Heard by SCOTUS, Jan. 16 Possible (Crystal A. Proxmire, Jan. 12, 2015) The Supreme Court has bumped up the date for all cases from the Sixth Circuit, including the case of the Hazel Park lesbian couple fighting for equal access to marriage. According to Dana Nessel, the case…