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A federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit against the city of Detroit, Wayne County, and the state of Michigan over inflated property tax assessments in 2017.
Judge Nancy Edmunds cited the Tax Injunction Act, writing, because there is a state remedy that is plain, speedy, and efficient, this Court, a federal court, lacks subject matter jurisdiction over these claims.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs are appealing the dismissal, arguing that clients federal constitutional rights to due process were violated, therefore making federal court the right place to litigate the issue.
In 2017, Detroit completed a property reappraisal for the entire city, ordered by the state. The city was then to send notices to residents, notifying them of the assessment and their right to appeal that assessment. City officials admitted they sent the notices late, on February 14, 2017, four days before the deadline, and extended the deadline to appeal the assessm
Fifteen years ago, Michigan’s child welfare system was in shambles.
Rather than protecting children, too often the system pulled them from homes only to allow them to languish in a bureaucracy, bouncing from foster home to foster home. In the worst cases, children were abused and neglected again.
Some disappeared.
And thousands would never find permanent homes, according to a 2006 lawsuit against the state.
Now, Michigan appears to be doing a far better job protecting vulnerable children so much so that the state appears poised to finally become extricated from more than a decade of federal court oversight of its foster care system.
Nearly 8 years ago: Kwame Kilpatrick is convicted on 24 federal felony counts
A look back at the former Detroit mayor’s trial, conviction, appeals
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DETROIT - OCTOBER 28: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appears in Wayne County Circuit Court for his sentencing October 28, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick will spend 4 months in jail as part of a plea deal he accepted back in September in which he plead guilty to two felonies and no contest to a felony assault charge. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) (2008 Getty Images)
The jury had deliberated for 14 full days in the corruption trial and announced their verdict that Monday morning. The verdict had been reached the Friday before, but the jury decided to go home and sleep on it over the weekend to see if anyone would change his or her mind by Monday morning.
Tamara Ecclestone s husband Jay Rutland says the heiress has become nervous and their daughter Sophia, 6, asks if the burglars are coming back after £25m raid on their mansion
The art gallery owner, 39, said that it is incredibly difficult seeing the impact on his wife, 36, after burglars made away with £25million in cash and jewellery
Jay also claimed that their six-year-old daughter, Sophia, has also been asking whether the burglars are coming back
The family were on holiday in Lapland when their 55-room mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens, London, was burgled in December 2019
Among the items taken were £3,250 earrings and a necklace worth £6,000
A Romanian barman who was cleared of involvement in the £25million burglary at Tamara Ecclestone s mansion will walk free today – despite being caught with her Louis Vuitton handbag and Frank Lampard s Tag Heuer smart watch.
Emile-Bogdan Savastru, 30, was cleared of involvement in the celebrity burglary plot but convicted of attempting to conceal criminal property after he was arrested at Heathrow with the stolen items.
He was jailed for six months but will be released immediately because he has been kept in custody since January 30 last year.
Savastru, his escort mother Maria Mester, 47, security worker Sorin Marcovici, 53, and hotel concierge Alexandru Stan, 49, were accused of helping the burglars who flew from Italy to steal £25million in jewellery and cash from F1 heiress Ms Ecclestone s mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens in December 2019.