Michigan

  • October 22, 2025

    State AGs Push Back In First Amendment Subpoena Fight

    A coalition of state attorneys general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to safeguard their fundamental investigative authority, warning in an amicus brief filed Tuesday that a New Jersey anti-abortion center's challenge could allow subpoenaed entities to routinely bypass state courts and tie up enforcement actions in federal litigation.

  • October 22, 2025

    Ed Dept. Must Face States' Case Over Mental Health Grants

    A Seattle federal judge declined to throw out a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Education of illegally discontinuing grants for student mental health programming, recognizing that Washington and other states have valid claims that the move will cut them off from money meant for reducing violence in schools.

  • October 22, 2025

    Fifth Attorney For Michigan Pastor Exits Zoning Suit

    A Michigan federal judge Wednesday allowed the fifth lawyer who represented a pastor in a zoning ordinance and retaliation dispute against a township to withdraw from the case, a few months after refusing to recuse himself from the case over a comment about the turnover rate for the pastor's counsel.

  • October 22, 2025

    6th Circ. Backs Lordstown Execs In Failed Foxconn Deal Suit

    The Sixth Circuit has upheld the dismissal of a suit claiming former executives of Lordstown Motors Corp. misled investors about the state of a partnership with Foxconn Technology Group, finding leaders' optimism about the ultimately failed deal wasn't intentionally false.

  • October 22, 2025

    Feds Fight Early Release For Atty Convicted Of $550M Fraud

    Federal prosecutors on Tuesday opposed compassionate release of a Kentucky lawyer who fled the country after pleading guilty to a $550 million Social Security fraud scheme, telling the Sixth Circuit that the lawyer's medical conditions are being adequately treated in prison and the seriousness of his crimes warranted more time behind bars.

  • October 21, 2025

    Tribes Ask Justices To Keep Enbridge Suit In Mich. State Court

    Ten tribal nations have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse Enbridge Energy LP's bid to move the Michigan attorney general's lawsuit seeking to shut down a pipeline out of state court, saying Tuesday the company wrongly wants to change the rules on a deadline it missed.

  • October 21, 2025

    Mich. Court Denies Gov't's Foreclosure Suit Atty Fee Bid

    A Michigan appellate panel on Monday determined governments that foreclose on tax-delinquent properties aren't entitled to attorney fees and expenses racked up during litigation over how the surplus proceeds of the property sale are paid out.

  • October 21, 2025

    6th Circ. Probes If Prior Cases Block Landowner's $2M Award

    A Sixth Circuit panel appeared torn Tuesday over Detroit's appeal of a $2 million condemnation judgment for a landowner whose commercial property was in the path of airport expansion plans, with one judge trying to tease out the effect of previous state court proceedings where the city prevailed.

  • October 21, 2025

    Football Players Urge Judge To Rethink Tossing $50M NIL Suit

    A Michigan federal judge committed "a clear error of law" by dismissing a $50 million antitrust suit against the NCAA by four former college football players last month based on the statute of limitations and on a misapplication of recent rulings involving other past college athletes' publicity rights, attorneys for the former football players said Tuesday in a motion to reconsider the suit's dismissal.

  • October 21, 2025

    Mich. AG Can Step Into Fire Insurance Policy Challenge

    The Michigan attorney general can intervene in a dispute over the constitutionality of the state's Fire Insurance Withholding Program, which allows participating municipalities to withhold part of a property owner's insurance payout until fire-damaged property is repaired, a federal court ruled.

  • October 21, 2025

    Mich. Judge Halts Challenge To Air Nat'l Guard Training Plans

    A Michigan federal judge halted litigation over a proposed expansion of Air National Guard training flights in Michigan until Congress has restored appropriations to the U.S. Department of Justice.

  • October 20, 2025

    States, DC Fight Feds' Bid To Cut Billions In OMB Grant Case

    Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have told a Massachusetts federal judge to hold onto their case challenging the Trump administration's use of "a single subclause" buried in a U.S. Office of Management and Budget regulation to shut off billions in federal grants. 

  • October 20, 2025

    Vape Co. Can't Resume Selling 'Breeze' Products

    A New Jersey hookah and vape company suffered two setbacks in its legal battle over the "Breeze" trademark, with a Michigan federal judge refusing to lift a court order blocking it from using the mark and throwing out its counterclaims against the rival who initiated the litigation.

  • October 20, 2025

    Mich. Judge Orders Release Or Bond Hearings For Immigrants

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated the rights of eight noncitizens by detaining them without providing bond hearings, a Michigan federal judge ruled, echoing her prior characterization of the Trump administration's push to impose mandatory detention as "not only wrong, but fundamentally unfair."

  • October 20, 2025

    DOJ Says Shutdown Slowing Flint Water Case Progress

    U.S. Department of Justice attorneys told a Michigan federal judge on Monday that the government shutdown is "straining" resources and restricting their ability to timely produce requested information in litigation over the response to the Flint water crisis.

  • October 20, 2025

    Split Mich. Panel Orders Probe Into Black Juror's Removal

    A divided Michigan state appeals court has granted a hearing to a man convicted of child sexual abuse to determine if a prospective juror was removed because of his race.

  • October 20, 2025

    Ford Says Solar Battery Co. Shared Trade Secrets

    Ford Motor Co. has sued a battery maker with which it once had a business partnership, claiming the company filed multiple patent applications disclosing Ford's confidential technology.

  • October 20, 2025

    21 AGs Back Planned Parenthood In Funding Freeze Fight

    A coalition of attorneys general from 21 Democrat-led states chimed in on Monday in support of Planned Parenthood's case challenging the Trump administration's push to cut off Medicaid reimbursements to its centers and affiliates, saying more than a million people could lose healthcare access if the First Circuit doesn't halt the move.     

  • October 20, 2025

    Mich. Equine Law Shields Ford Museum In Carriage Crash

    A Michigan appellate panel said in a published opinion that the Henry Ford museum is immune from a woman's negligence suit over a horse-drawn carriage accident, determining riding in a horse-drawn carriage falls under a state law shielding sponsors of equine activity from liability.

  • October 17, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Lenders' Inner Circle, '25 Hospitality Deals

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a look at the real estate deal dynamics influencing the choice of lender counsel, and the law firms that guided the 10-figure hospitality mergers and acquisitions to date in 2025.

  • October 17, 2025

    Mich. College Must Face Meta Pixel Tracking Class Action

    A Michigan federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss a proposed class action claiming a private liberal arts college used an automated tracker and disclosed to Meta the watch history of visitors who accessed online lectures.

  • October 17, 2025

    Green Biz Group Says Enbridge Exaggerating Pipeline Stakes

    An environmental advocacy group made up of Great Lakes businesses told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that Enbridge Energy LP and its supporters are overstating claims that shutting down a Michigan segment of one of its petroleum pipelines will threaten energy security.

  • October 17, 2025

    Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

    The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

  • October 17, 2025

    Fired K-9 Officer Drops Bias Suit Against Mich. Hospital

    A former K-9 security officer for a Michigan hospital agreed to drop her claims that she was fired after disclosing that she was in a same-sex relationship and asking for back pay earned while caring for the dog, according to a Friday order.

  • October 16, 2025

    La Colombe Workers' $450K Wage Deal Gets Final OK

    La Colombe's hourly paid production workers have received final approval of a $450,000 settlement with the coffee chain, which was accused of failing to pay them for time spent donning and doffing protective equipment before and after their shifts, according to an order by a Pennsylvania federal judge.

Expert Analysis

  • SDNY OpenAI Order Clarifies Preservation Standards For AI

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    The Southern District of New York’s recent order in the OpenAI copyright infringement litigation, denying discovery of The New York Times' artificial intelligence technology use, clarifies that traditional preservation benchmarks apply to AI content, relieving organizations from using a “keep everything” approach, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.

  • Opinion

    High Court, Not A Single Justice, Should Decide On Recusal

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    As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both judicial independence and due process for litigants, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Series

    Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

  • 6th Circ. FirstEnergy Ruling Protects Key Legal Privileges

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    The Sixth Circuit’s recent grant of mandamus relief in In re: First Energy Corp. confirms that the attorney-client privilege and work-product protections apply to internal investigation materials, ultimately advancing the public interest, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service

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    Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.

  • Loper Bright's Evolving Application In Labor Case Appeals

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    Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, which upended decades of precedent requiring courts to defer to agency interpretations of federal regulations, the Third and Sixth Circuits' differing approaches leave little certainty as to which employment regulations remain in play, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job

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    After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.

  • Mich. Ruling Narrows Former Athletes' Path To NIL Recovery

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    A federal judge's recent dismissal of a name, image and likeness class action by former Michigan college football players marks the third such ruling this year, demonstrating how statutes of limitation and prior NIL settlements are effectively foreclosing these claims for pre-2016 student-athletes, say attorneys at Venable.

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    Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

  • 3 Trends From AI-Related Securities Class Action Dismissals

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    A review of recently dismissed securities class actions centering on artificial intelligence highlights courts' scrutiny of statements about AI's capabilities and independence, and sustained focus on issues that aren't AI-specific, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach

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    In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.

  • How AI Can Find Environmental Risks Before Regulators Do

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    By using artificial intelligence to analyze public information that regulators collect but find incredibly challenging to connect across agencies and databases, legal teams can identify risks before widespread health impacts occur, rather than waiting for harm to surface — potentially transforming environmental litigation, says Paul Napoli at Napoli Shkolnik.

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    Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.

  • $100K H-1B Fee May Disrupt Rural Healthcare Needs

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    The Trump administration's newly imposed $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions may disproportionately affect healthcare employers' ability to recruit international medical graduates, and the fee's national interest exceptions will not adequately solve ensuing problems for healthcare employers or medically underserved areas, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech

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    Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.

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