Matthew Miller

4 days ago | mlive.com | Matthew Miller

The U.S. Supreme Court is broken, Leah Litman argues in her forthcoming book, “Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories and Bad Vibes.”What the Court’s Republican majority presents as legal theory and interpretation is “a vacuous, nihilistic black hole in law’s clothing,” she writes.

1 week ago | mlive.com | Matthew Miller

The Trump administration stripped dozens of international students studying at Michigan universities of their legal residency last month. It did the same to thousands of others around the country. Then, after pushback from judges in dozens of court cases around the county, it did an about face, restoring most of those students’ permission to remain in the country, to continue their education and, in some cases, to work.

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Ted Sherman |Susan Livio |Matthew Miller

It’s been called one of the worst nursing homes in New Jersey. For years it “siphoned” millions of dollars of Medicaid funds out of the home and to various side businesses, a state watchdog found, “leaving residents to live in a dismal, understaffed, and under-resourced facility.”And in December, acting State Comptroller Kevin Walsh moved to kick South Jersey Extended Care, its owner and those associated with its operations from the state’s Medicaid program. “This was a massive scam,” he said.

2 weeks ago | mlive.com | Matthew Miller

A Grand Rapids man is suing the operators of a juvenile detention center in Osceola County, alleging that center staff physically and sexually abused him. Jermichael Brown, Jr. was placed at Muskegon River Youth Home near Evart in 2019, when he was 15 years old. One staff member slammed his head into the floor, according to the complaint, filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Another slammed his head into a metal bed frame.

2 weeks ago | mlive.com | Matthew Miller

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Court of Appeals Judge Noah Hood to fill the seat on the Michigan Supreme Court vacated by Justice Elizabeth Clement. “A proud Detroiter, graduate of Harvard Law, and active member of the legal community with both trial and appellate court experience, he will bring important perspectives to the highest court in our state,” Whitmer said in a statement. Whitmer appointed Hood to a Wayne County circuit court judgeship in 2019 and to the Court of Appeals in 2022.