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Did auto insurance overhaul help Michigan motorists?

January 7, 2026

It’s been more than six years since Michigan officials approved bipartisan reforms aimed at driving down sky-high auto insurance costs. Yet the question remains: was it a net positive for Michigan drivers?

Read more at Bridge Michigan

USPS Postmark Change

January 1, 2026

FYI everyone! USPS has recently changed postmarking. Mail will now be postmarked when it's processed, not when it's dropped off. This will be important when mailing taxes, ballots, etc. If you need something postmarked the day of drop off, make sure you take it to the counter and request a postmark.

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10 New MI Laws That Will Change Your Life In 2026

December 31, 2025

Here's a look at some of Michigan's new laws going into effect in 2026 and how'll they can impact your life.

Read more at Patch.com

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AI-Faked Cases Become Core Issue Irritating Overworked Judges

December 30, 2025
AI-hallucinated case citations have moved from novelty to a core challenge for the courts, prompting complaints from judges that the issue distracts from the merits of the cases in front of them.
The growing burden placed by artificial intelligence became clear in 2025, two years after the first prominent instance of fake case citations popped up in a US court. There have been an estimated 712 legal decisions written about hallucinated content in court cases around the world, with about 90% of those decisions written in 2025, according to a database maintained by Paris-based researcher and law lecturer Damien Charlotin.
Read more at Bloomberg Law
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Smoker Class Actions Put Pressure on Employer Wellness Programs

December 23, 2025

At least half a dozen federal lawsuits are ongoing, with workers alleging employers are violating fiduciary duties and nondiscrimination provisions under the Affordable Care Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act by penalizing smokers and pocketing the fines. Multiple corporations have settled cases with workers in recent months, with Performance Food Group Inc. most recently agreeing to pay $4.7 million to 18,500 employees.

Read more at Bloomberg Law

Trump signs executive order expediting marijuana reclassification

December 22, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to expedite the reclassification of marijuana – an effort to increase research on its medical use but not fully legalize it.
The order — which directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to hasten the process of loosening federal restrictions but does not include a timeline — comes after an intensive lobbying campaign from the cannabis industry.
Read more at CNN

Which Supreme Court cases are actually important?

December 18, 2025
t’s the age-old question: Does the Supreme Court decide its cases based on rank partisanship rather than legal principles?
Many scholars and commentators unhesitatingly answer in the affirmative. Such individuals may acknowledge that the plurality of Supreme Court decisions are unanimous (42% last term) and that the vast majority of the court’s cases do not break down by the 6-3 conservative/liberal split (over 90% last term). But, in their view, the important cases are decided along partisan lines.
Of course, this raises the obvious follow-up: Which cases are the important ones?
Read more at SCOTUS Blog
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Ex-Harvard morgue manager who sold stolen body parts receives eight-year sentence

December 17, 2025
A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison for stealing and selling organs and other parts of cadavers that were donated to the school for medical research and education.
Prosecutors said Cedric Lodge from 2018 through at least March 2020 stole parts from cadavers including heads, faces, brains, skin and hands after they had been used for research and teaching purposes and transported them from Harvard's morgue in Massachusetts to his home in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
Together, the Lodges sold stolen remains to several individuals including two in Pennsylvania, which the buyers mostly then resold, prosecutors said.
Read more at Reuters
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Plea or poop? Road rage defecator takes rehab over trial

December 16, 2025
A Delaware County, Pennsylvania, woman — known regionally as the “Delco Pooper” after she was captured on video angrily defecating on a car — avoided trial Tuesday, instead entering into a rehabilitative program for her fecal faults.
“I wanted to punch her in the face, but I pooped on her car instead and went home,” Solometo said, according to the affidavit.
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Trump signs order declaring illicit fentanyl a 'weapon of mass destruction'

December 15, 2025

The order asserts that illicit fentanyl is "closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic," noting that as little as two milligrams — "an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt" — can be lethal. It states that hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses and argues that the drug’s production and distribution by organized criminal networks now constitute a significant national-security threat.

Read more at Fox News

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