Category Archives: Lawyers & Legal Services

Tip of the iceberg? Weaver dissents from Taylor’s re-election

January 8, 2007 – 12:01 pm

Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Clifford Taylor (AP Photo/Al Goldis) Last week’s 4-3 re-election of Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Clifford Taylor also saw an escalation of tension on the court in the form of a dissent by Justice Elizabeth A. Weaver that begins: It is necessary that I dissent from the election of Chief [...]

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Dissent to Election of Chief Justice Clifford Taylor as Chief Justice

January 8, 2007 – 11:57 am

Editor’s Note: We are making Justice Weaver’s dissent available for you to read as supporting material as we feel it is worthy of consideration and we couldn’t find it anywhere online. Share this:

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A Very Good Point

December 21, 2006 – 6:29 pm

Jack Lessenberry says that even though he voted against Proposal 2 last month, and would vote against it again and is a a proud member of the American Civil Liberties Union, he thinks that the suits filed by the ACLU and the NAACP are flat-out wrong. Find out why over at Jack’s blog. Photo: Thirds [...]

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Agreement delays Proposal 2 implementation

December 19, 2006 – 11:40 am

The Detroit Free Press reports that an agreement was reached yesterday that allows the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University to delay implementing the voter-approved ban on affirmative action. The agreement only affects the admissions and financial aid programs. After July 1, 2007 the universities will have to comply with the [...]

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Time to rewrite Michigan’s Constitution?

December 14, 2006 – 9:42 am

Capitol Reflected by Apocaplops An article in yesterday’s Freep reported the latest on the recommendations by Citizens for Michigan regarding our state’s Constitution. Citizens for Michigan is a self-appointed, volunteer group includes the likes of former AG Frank Kelley, former publisher Phil Power, Oakland County CEO L. Brooks Patterson and other former legislators, legal experts, [...]

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Water, water everywhere … now about those rules

December 5, 2006 – 9:28 am

White River by curlyson The Muskegon Chronicle is reporting that Nestle (bottlers of Ice Mountain water) is seeking state permission to pump 70 million gallons of spring water annually from the headwaters of two of Michigan’s finest trout streams: the White River (a state Natural River) and Pere Marquette River (a federal Wild and Scenic [...]

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Protecting Lake Michigan’s Shoreline Dunes

November 20, 2006 – 8:25 am

Michigan has laws to regulate development and activity in our geologically unique shoreline dunes. The question for today is: are those laws working? Share this:

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We do love our cars: Southeast Michigan

August 4, 2006 – 11:01 am

TheStrip by Hemicuda82 We do love our cars in Michigan, as this photo of the Summer Classic Car Show in Flint demonstrates. For a century the automobile has defined Michigan and now the demise of the auto industry is redefining us. At Absolute Michigan, we’re trying very hard to fight past the “we lost a [...]

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Rosa Parks

November 1, 2005 – 3:51 pm

On October 24, 2005, Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” died in Detroit. She had earned that appellation fifty years earlier when she refused to move from her seat on a segregated bus in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama. It was December 1, 1955. Parks was coming home from a long day [...]

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