Michigan, Supreme Court and SNAP
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office is asking the court to overturn two previous rulings and allow an investigation into Eli Lilly and Co.
The US Supreme Court let the Trump administration for now withhold $4 billion in food aid that a judge had ordered distributed Friday to fully fund November benefits for 42 million people.
The Michigan Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the state attorney general’s case against insulin-maker Eli Lilly and Company.
The Michigan Supreme Court said it will rule on a legal fight over the legitimacy of Stellantis’ supplier contracts, a move that will have big implications for millions of automotive contracts.
A state judicial task force is calling for a local court funding overhaul so local judges will have fewer incentives to squeeze defendants for revenue. That is part of a plan to bring courts into a compliance with an 11-year-old Michigan Supreme Court decision that money from fines and fees can’t be used to pay courts’ day-to-day operating costs.
After a flurry of legal developments Friday, Nov. 7, that landed in the U.S. Supreme Court, Michigan SNAP recipients are back in limbo.
A new study recommends Michigan should centralize revenue collected in trial courts to remove pressures causing some judges to over-bill defendants.