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May 19, 2026
A cannabis investment company can't sue a city within metro Detroit for refusing to allow it to open a dispensary, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying a local official's alleged promise to "grandfather" the company in, despite a ban on new retailers, can't supersede a city ordinance.
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May 19, 2026
Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss a superseding indictment charging former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles managers with deceiving regulators about the emissions controls and fuel efficiency for more than 100,000 cars sold in the U.S., according to a brief filed Tuesday in Michigan federal court.
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May 19, 2026
A former public defender was ordered Tuesday to provide complete discovery responses in her discrimination and retaliation suit against two district judges and administrators after a Michigan federal judge found she failed to show the requests were improper and cast doubt on her claim that she had already mailed the materials.
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May 19, 2026
The students accusing the University of Michigan and a former football coach of sexual harassment and of hacking their accounts insist that the facts favor them and not the school and coach, and that their lawsuit should be allowed to continue.
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May 19, 2026
A Michigan man who suffered traumatic brain injury when his pickup truck was T-boned by a school bus was awarded over $32 million in damages by an Oakland County jury on Monday.
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May 19, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday denied the City of Burton's motion to dismiss a suit brought by a man who alleged two city police officers unnecessarily tackled him, causing severe injuries, and granted the man's request to stay the proceedings until he receives psychological treatment so he can be deemed competent to testify.
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May 19, 2026
A coalition of 24 attorneys general and two governors are challenging a rule recently promulgated by the U.S. Department of Education, alleging in a complaint in Maryland federal court Tuesday that it unlawfully limits access to federal student loans for those pursuing professional degree programs.
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May 19, 2026
A Michigan appellate court panel has affirmed a tax ruling against a medical equipment company, holding that prescription gauze, bandages, gloves, wound dressings and related supplies sold to disabled patients do not qualify as tax-exempt prosthetic devices under the state's General Sales Tax Act.
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May 19, 2026
CVS Health Corp. and several affiliates implemented a pricing scheme to divert to themselves savings from the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program, two University of Michigan hospital operators told a federal court, saying the scheme has resulted in more than $66 million in lost revenue over six years.
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May 19, 2026
Rocket Mortgage's parent company is arguing in Michigan federal court that a proposed class failed to show direct injury from an alleged scheme by the company to funnel homebuyers to brokers promoting costlier Rocket-affiliated mortgage services, in a brief supporting its bid to escape the case.
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May 18, 2026
Residents of Flint, Michigan, and the federal government have offered sharply different accounts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's role in the city's water crisis in hundreds of pages of proposed findings submitted after a bellwether bench trial that lasted more than a month and ended in March.
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May 18, 2026
Parliament-Funkadelic frontman George Clinton filed suit Friday in Michigan federal court alleging that music industry giant UMG has illegally withheld more than $1.1 million in royalty payments because of a separate lawsuit pending between Clinton and the estate of Clinton's keyboardist in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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May 18, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, one of the state attorneys general of a coalition of states that recently won a jury verdict finding Live Nation illegally established a monopoly over the live music industry, said Monday the next step is a structural overhaul of the conglomerate.
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May 18, 2026
The Michigan Department of Attorney General announced Monday that it secured a settlement worth at least $108 million — and potentially as much as $240 million — with Monsanto Co. and affiliated entities over environmental contamination from toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, across the state.
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May 18, 2026
Pharmacy benefit managers told a Michigan federal court on Monday they are not responsible for opioid abuse because they do not control prescription drugs once they are sold to patients, as Evernorth Health, Express Scripts and other companies seek an exit from the state attorney general's public nuisance suit.
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May 18, 2026
A Michigan couple has sued an Ohio insurance broker in federal court, claiming they were duped into abandoning $15.6 million in life insurance coverage for a defective premium-financed "tandem plan" that collapsed after interest rates rose.
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May 18, 2026
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Monday extended into a second year the life of a Michigan coal-fired power plant slated for closure, just days after the D.C. Circuit considered whether such moves are a lawful use of Wright's emergency authority.
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May 15, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Friday granted the U.S. government's bid to hold the co-founder of a defunct telemarketing fundraiser personally liable for more than $4.3 million in unpaid payroll taxes, finding that he controlled the company's finances and willfully failed to pay the Internal Revenue Service.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officer is shielded by qualified immunity from a civil rights lawsuit filed against the officer after he shot and killed an armed-robbery suspect who had driven his car into police during a traffic stop.
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May 15, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel attempted Friday to find the limit on the U.S. Department of Energy's emergency authority to keep power plants running without a regional utility's request, with Michigan arguing that no emergency existed to justify the federal government's orders to keep a Consumers Energy plant online.
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May 15, 2026
The Michigan state appeals court has said a Detroit-area school district is not liable for a student's finger being amputated after a school bus-boarding mishap because the district is protected by governmental immunity from negligence lawsuits.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has upheld a $10 million jury verdict for a Michigan man who spent more than six years in prison before prosecutors concluded he was not guilty of murder, ruling that a Detroit detective could not use the man's vacated conviction to block his civil rights suit.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit on Friday refused to rethink a panel's earlier decision that revived two proposed class actions against cereal giant Kellogg and transportation company FedEx in which retirees allege that their pension payments were lowballed due to outdated mortality tables used in conversions.
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May 15, 2026
The city of Detroit has urged a Michigan federal court to deny Robinhood Derivatives LLC's bid to block the state from enforcing its state gaming laws, arguing the company's sports-related event contracts threaten Detroit's tax revenue and local economy.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit declined to revive a worker's suit claiming a heavy machinery dealer fired him for seeking leave to manage his mental health and that his union failed to challenge his termination, ruling he lacked evidence that prejudice informed his firing rather than his performance issues.