Michigan Supreme Court

The Michigan Supreme Court struck down life without parole sentences for people convicted of felony murder before 1980. The ruling is the latest decision limiting mandatory life based on constitutional protections against cruel or unusual punishment.

Hours after court rulings cleared the way for nine long-delayed bills championed by Democratic legislators to be delivered to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Whitmer vetoed all of them.

The Michigan Court of Claims dismissed the Edenville Dam case, saying property owners did not provide evidence that proved the state was liable for the dam failure.

Pipeline owner Enbridge wanted a lawsuit from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to be moved to federal court. But in a unanimous decision, justices ruled Enbridge’s arguments for doing so were ‘not persuasive.’

The state Senate is suing the state House over nine bills that are in limbo after they passed both chambers of the Legislature but were never sent to the governor to sign.

A zoo in the western Upper Peninsula is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to refuse a case that seeks a ruling that chimpanzees have constitutional rights against wrongful imprisonment.

Attorney General Dana Nessel backs proposed Michigan Supreme Court rule change limiting civil arrests in state and local courthouses.

Zebadiah Soriano wants his involuntary statement suppressed, and he wants a sentence that includes putting his name on the state’s sex offender registry reversed.

Michigan Republicans want the state Supreme Court to overturn a ruling saying that all bills passed by both chambers of the Legislature have to go to the governor.

The Washington D.C.-based Nonhuman Rights Project argues that chimpanzees at the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula deserve common law habeas corpus rights.