Michigan News

State Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kelly and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James Ryan are two of the most experienced jurists in Michigan. They tend to diverge on political matters -- she's a liberal Democrat, he's a conservative Republican -- but between them is more than 25 years of service on our state's highest court.

We all gripe about movies, don’t we? High ticket prices, chatty people in the theater, the eerie, distracting glow of cell phones — and to top it off, the high cost of popcorn, candy and soda.

The Michigan Supreme Court has upheld the rule of law by refusing to permit what amounts to a product liability suit against a drug manufacturer. In doing so, the court blocked an attempted end-run around a state law that bars suits against pharmaceuticals that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The justices rightly refrained from acting as legislators in this case.

In a lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan the pension group says its custodian, BNY Mellon, gambled and lost more than $1 billion of its money in investments tied to failing Lehman Brothers.