Michigan Homeowners Association Law

Michael Gruber v. Wolf Creek Productions, Inc., al.

Corunna, Michigan employment law lawyers represented the parties in a breach of contract dispute. On May 31, 2016, the individual defendants, Nichols, Sherrill, and Nelson, terminated Gruber from his position as an employee and board member of defendant Wolf Creek, which is a company that produces television shows about hunting and fishing. Gruber's termination stemmed from his receipt o... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Mychal Marcell Borney </h1>

<h2><center> Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms </font/color="red"></center><center> Lansing Man, Prosecuted Under Safe Summer Program, Sentenced To 27 Months In Prison</h2></center> </h2></center> U.S. Attorney for the We... More...

$0 (12-19-2024 - MI)

<h1> United States of America v. George William Henry </h1>

<h2><center> Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and for possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking </center><center> Habitual Firearms Offender, Prosecuted Under Safe Summer Program, Sentenced To 106 Months... More...

$0 (11-01-2024 - MI)

<h1> United States of America v. Darell William Craft, Jr. </h1>

<h2><center> Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Under Summer Gun Violence Program </center><center> Benton Harbor Armed Felon, Prosecuted Under Summer Gun Violence Program, Sentenced To 88 Months In Federal Prison</h2></center> </h2></center> ... More...

$0 (07-23-2024 - MI)

Mark M. Messing v. Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a wrongful failure to pay long-term disability benefits. Plaintiff Mark M. Messing sued Defendant Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company seeking reinstatement of his benefits under a long-term disability insurance plan. Plaintiff has succeeded on both his claim and Defendant's counterclaim. Bef... More...

$0 (08-25-2023 - MI)

Marion Sinclair v. Andy Meisner, et al.

Detroit, Michigan civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on wrongful foreclosure theories. In this putative class action, Plaintiff Marion Sinclair asserts that various government units, private entities, and public officials conspired to deprive her and other similarly-situated individuals in Southfield, Michigan of the equity value of their homes. She says th... More...

$0 (06-06-2023 - MI)

Vincent Porter v. National Football League Players Association

Flint, Michigan labor/employment lawyer represented Plaintiff wrongful termination and harassment. "Vincent Porter was suspended from being an NFL agent by the National Football League Players Association ('NFLPA') after he was criminally indicted. He successfully appealed his suspension through arbitration and now brings state-law claims alleging that the NFLPA acted tortiously in suspen... More...

$0 (04-17-2023 - MI)

Danny Lamont Chambers; Dontell Rayvon-Eddie Smith v. Ronald Sanders; City of Detroit, Michigan

Danny Lamont Chambers and Dontell Rayvon-Eddie Smith allege that Detective Ronald Sanders and his employer, the City of Detroit, violated their Fourteenth Amendment right to familial integrity by procuring the wrongful conviction and incarceration of their father, Danny Burton. Even assuming that the plaintiffs have identified a substantive right protected by the Due Process Clause, thei... More...

$0 (04-03-2023 - MI)

United States of America v. Michigan Education Association and Michigan Education Special Services Association

Grand Rapids, Michigan civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act (FCA) by applying for and obtaining loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for which they knew or should have known they were ineligible. <table> <h1> <center> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Grand_RapidsFED... More...

$0 (03-13-2023 - MI)

United States of America v. Verdine DAy

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with embezzlement. Verdice Day, age 62,Day was hired by the Detroit Fire Department in 1986. She worked as a firefighter, engineer, and held other positions in the union before she was elected by her peers to Treasurer of the DFFA in November 2015. She was Treasurer from December 2015 until her retirement from the D... More...

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Peter Hudson v. City of Highland Park, Michigan, Derek Hillman, Makini Jackson

Peter Hudson fought fires for the Highland Park Fire Department for close to thirteen years. During that time, he became a person of faith. For five years, he criticized other firefighters at the station for conduct he thought immoral and harmful to their work, and they responded by criticizing his faith and belittling him in other ways. In 2015, Hudson’s supervisor discovered that he had overre... More...

$0 (11-26-2019 - MI)

League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. v. Jocelyn Benson, in her capacity as Michigan Secretary of State, et al.

<center> <img width="300" Src="https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Images/Slideshow/3.jpg"> </center> The League of Women Voters of Michigan (“League”), numerous League members (“League Plaintiffs”), and several Democratic voters (“Individual Plaintiffs”) bring suit against Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan Secretary of State in her official capacity, under 42 U.S.C. §... More...

$0 (05-24-2019 - MI)

United States of America v. Andres Garcia

<center> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Dirksen_Federal_Building.jpg/200px-Dirksen_Federal_Building.jpg"> </center> A jury found defendant-appellant Andres Garcia guilty of distributing cocaine—actually distributing a kilogram of the stuff—to co-defendant Alan Cisneros in violation of 21 US.C. § 841. The government ... More...

$0 (03-20-2019 - MI)

Lynn Lumbard v. City of Ann Arbor

<center> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/US-CourtOfAppeals-6thCircuit-Seal.png/150px-US-CourtOfAppeals-6thCircuit-Seal.png"> </center> In 2000, the City of Ann Arbor passed an ordinance requiring certain homeowners to undergo structural renovations to their homes to alleviate storm water drainage problems affecting the city and surro... More...

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Ridge Peterson v. Tahquamenon Area Snowmobile Association, Inc.

<center> <h1> <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/recent.asp" target="_new">MoreLaw Helps People Find Lawyers</a> </h1> </center> Southfield, MI - Ridge Peterson sued the Tahquamenon Area Snowmobile Association, Inc. on a personal injury negligence theory.... More...

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David Haddad v. Randall Gregg

<center> <h1> Market Your Practice In Ten Counties for $10 A Month <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Ken&l=Morlan&i=28606&z=74103&s=OK" target="_new">Cost Effective Affordable Internet Marketing For Your Practice</a> </h1> </center>David Haddad su... More...

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Derek Waskul; Cory Schneider; Kevin Wiesner; Washtenaw Asociation for Community Advocacy v. Washtenaw Country Community Mental Health, et al.

An association generally has standing if “at least one of [its] members would have standing to sue on his own.” United Food & Commercial Workers v. Brown, 517 U.S. 544, 554–55 (1996) (citing Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 511 (1975)). In this interlocutory appeal, the Washtenaw Association for Community Advocacy identifies at least one named member who appears to have suffered an initial dep... More...

$0 (08-16-2018 - MI)

Bradley A. Cardew v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration

Bradley Cardew—a wheelchair-bound individual with quadriplegia—landed a short-term, highly accommodated summer internship with Lear Corporation thanks to his cousin, a vice president at Lear. But as James Agate once quipped, > No. 17-2287 Cardew v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec. Page 2 “Every good deed brings its own punishment.” This aphorism surely resonated with Cardew, though with a... More...

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Erick Peoples, et al. v. City of Detroit, Michigan

Plaintiffs-Appellants are eleven minority firefighters who were laid off by the City of Detroit (“City”) in August 2012 as part of a reduction in force (“RIF”). Plaintiffs brought suit against the City and their union, the Detroit Fire Fighters Association, Local 344, IAFF, AFL-CIO (“DFFA”), alleging that they were laid off in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 ... More...

$0 (06-16-2018 - MI)

Little Traverse Lake Property Owners Association v. National Park Service

This case presents the question of what citizens must do during the administrative planning stage of a federal agency action in order to preserve a later challenge to the agency’s final decision under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). In 2008, the National Park Service proposed a plan to build a scenic trailway through the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore ... More...

$0 (02-26-2018 - MI)

Leapers, Inc. v. SMTS, LLC and Sun OPtics, USA

Plaintiff Leapers, Inc. appeals the district court’s entry of summary judgment for Defendant Sun Optics USA in Plaintiff’s case alleging trade dress infringement under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051, et seq. For the reasons set forth below, we VACATE the district court’s judgment and REMAND the case for further proceedings. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Leapers, Inc. makes adju... More...

$0 (01-10-2018 - MI)

Elise Hilton v. Catherine Mish

Elise and Ed Hilton, individually, and as next friends of their developmentally-disabled daughter, EH (collectively, the “Hiltons”), appeal the district court’s dismissal of their complaint. They argue that the district court erred in three respects. They allege that Catherine Mish, City Attorney for Grand Rapids, was acting under color of state law when she sent two emails f... More...

$0 (01-05-2018 - MI)

Melissa Mays v. City of Flint, Michigan

This case arises out of the drinking-water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The Plaintiffs are residents of the City of Flint who represent themselves and seek to represent a class of similarly situated individuals. They allege that they have been harmed since April 2014 by the toxic condition of the Flint water supply. The Plaintiffs filed suit against several City and State officials i... More...

$0 (09-16-2017 - MI)

Jane Doe v. Etihad Airways, P.J.S.C.

Plaintiff Jane Doe and her eleven-year-old daughter flew aboard Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi to Chicago. For the duration of the fourteen-hour journey, Doe’s tray table remained open in her lap because a knob that was meant to hold it in place had fallen to the floor. During the flight, Doe’s daughter found the knob on the floor and gave it to Doe, who placed it in a seatback ... More...

$0 (09-06-2017 - MI)

Marica R. Meoli v. The Huntington National Bank

In this bankruptcy case, Trustee Marcia Meoli seeks to recover allegedly fraudulent transfers of funds from the now-bankrupt company, Teleservices, to Huntington National Bank. Huntington lent money to, and maintained the deposits of, another company called Cyberco, which had created Teleservices to perpetuate a Ponzi scheme. As a part of the scheme, Cyberco and Teleservices shuttl... More...

$0 (02-12-2017 - MI)

United States of America v. United Shore Financial Services, L.L.C. (USFS)

Detroit, MI - United Shore Financial Services LLC Agrees to Pay $48 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Liability Arising from FHA-Insured Mortgage Lending United Shore Financial Services LLC (USFS) has agreed to pay the United States $48 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S... More...

$48000000 (12-29-2016 - MI)

David Herr v. U.S. Forest Service

David and Pamela Herr bought waterfront property on Crooked Lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and planned to use their gas-powered motorboat on it. That plan was dashed when the U.S. Forest Service threatened to enforce a regulation that bans non-electric motorboats from the ninety-five percent of the lake that falls within a National Wilderness Area. The Herrs responded with this lawsuit,... More...

$0 (10-11-2015 - MI)

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan v. Livingston County

Detroit, MI - Sixth Circuit rules that prisoners have the right to receive legal mail unopened Plaintiff American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan sent letters enclosed in sealed envelopes to twenty-five inmates at the Livingston County Jail that were marked “Legal Mail,” included the name and bar number of a Michigan attorney, and offered legal assistance regarding the ... More...

$0 (08-11-2015 - MI)

American Civil Liberties Union v. County of Livingston

The Livingston County Jail has adopted a “postcard policy” for mail coming in and out of the Jail. The Jail’s mail policy requires that “[a]ll mail, except bona-fide legal mail, will be by standard plain 4x6 postcards no images.” R. 29-3 (Inmate Rules and Regulations at 3) (Page ID #597); see also R. 1-3 (Comp. Ex. A, Jail Website at 2) (Page ID #19). This is true “for both incoming... More...

$0 (08-11-2015 - MI)

CFE Racing Products, Inc. v. BMF Wheels, Inc.

Plaintiff CFE Racing Products, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) appeals from the order of the district court entering a narrow permanent injunction against BMF Wheels, Inc. and BMF Wheels owner Brock Weld (“Defendants”) on February 24, 2014 following a jury trial that resulted in a verdict for Plaintiff. Plaintiff argues that the injunction crafted by the district court is inadequate, an... More...

$0 (07-13-2015 - MI)

Clifford Charles Tyler v. Hillsdale County Sheriff's Department

This case presents an important issue of first impression in the federal courts: whether a prohibition on the possession of firearms by a person "who has been committed to a mental institution,â€ 18 U.S.C. Â§ 922(g)(4), violates the Second Amendment. Twenty-eight years ago, Clifford Charles Tyler was involuntarily committed for less than one month after allegedly undergoing an emot... More...

$0 (12-26-2014 - MI)

Camille Haddad v. Alexander, Zelmanski, Danner & Floritto, P.L.L.C.

Plaintiff Camille Haddad ("Haddadâ€) appeals the order of the district court granting summary judgment to Defendant law firm Alexander, Zelmanski, Danner & Fioretti, PLLC, ("Firmâ€) in this action brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPAâ€), 15 U.S.C. Â§ 1692, et seq., and the Michigan Collection Practices Act ("MCPAâ€), Mich. Comp. Laws Â... More...

$0 (07-16-2014 - MI)

Yazan Musleh v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

Yazan and Huda Musleh appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment to State Farm and denial of their motion for reconsideration and for leave to amend their complaint. We AFFIRM. I. This case is before this court for the second time. The Muslehs filed their first breach of contract action in March 2010, seeking to recover under their homeowners insurance policy for damages c... More...

$0 (02-18-2014 - MI)

Jared Rapp v. Robert Dutcher

Plaintiffs Jared Rapp and Moti Goldring jointly own a condominium in the City of East Lansing, Michigan, and rented it out without a landlord license in violation of certain municipal ordinances. As a result, the City issued plaintiffs 173 citations. The state court held plaintiffs responsible for all citations and ordered them to pay $45,480 in fines. While the state court proceedings were ongoin... More...

$0 (02-18-2014 - MI)

Michael J. Conlin v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

This appeal requires us once again to wade into the morass of litigation involving mortgage foreclosures under Michigan law. In this case, Plaintiff Michael Conlin seeks to have the foreclosure sale of his property in Ann Arbor, Michigan set aside based on alleged defects in the assignment of the mortgage on the property from Defendant Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems to Defendant U.S. Ban... More...

$0 (04-10-2013 - MI)

Geraldine A. Fuhr v. Hazel Park School District

In 1999, Plaintiff-Appellant Geraldine Fuhr filed a successful lawsuit to be instated as varsity boys basketball coach at Hazel Park High School, where she had been employed as varsity girls basketball coach. For five years she coached both the girls and boys varsity basketball teams. In 2006, she was removed from her position coaching varsity girls basketball. In this action, she ... More...

$0 (03-19-2013 - MI)

Cynthia Bimberg v. Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools

Plaintiff Cynthia Bimberg appeals the district court's order granting summary judgment to defendant Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools, referred to in the record as Laker Schools. Bimberg filed a complaint against the school district claiming that she was terminated from her job as a school bus driver based on associational discrimination, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 ... More...

$0 (01-17-2013 - MI)

American Beverage Associaiton v. Rick Snyder

Plaintiff, the American Beverage Association ("Associationâ€), appeals the district court's order granting summary judgment to Defendants, Governor Rick Snyder, Attorney General Bill Schuette, and Michigan Treasurer Andrew Dillon in their official capacities (collectively Defendants), and the Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association ("MBWWAâ€), which intervened in support of Defendan... More...

$0 (01-08-2013 - MI)

Ricardo Diaz v. Michigan Department of Corrections

In Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, the Supreme Court held that a state employee may recover money damages in federal court for a state's failure to comply with the family-care provision of the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLAâ€ or "the Actâ€). 538 U.S. 721, 725 (2003); see generally 29 U.S.C. Â§ 2612(a)(1)(C). After the Supreme Court's decision, this Circuit held that a p... More...

$0 (01-07-2013 - MI)

Sheila Hensley v. Ronald Gassman d/b/a RepoRon

This case presents the classic scenario of a repo-man attempting to snatch a creditor's collateral â€“ here a vehicle â€“ under cover of darkness in the middle of the night from a defaulting debtor. Although the repo-man, Ronald Gassman, attained his objective, things did not go quite as smoothly as he had hoped: the possessor of the vehicle verbally and physically opposed the repossessi... More...

$0 (09-12-2012 - MI)