A judge on Monday delivered a legal blow to efforts by Sterling Heights officials challenging the responsibility and costs involving the repair of the collapsed sewer on 15 Mile Road in Fraser. Macomb County Circuit Judge Jennifer Faunce rejected the citys request to have the citys $22.2 million assessment set aside and that the Macomb Interceptor sewer board sue the Macomb County Wastewater …
A lawsuit could cause a big delay in repairs at the site of a sewer collapse in Fraser. Work on the sewer collapse along 15 Mile Road between Hayes and Utica roads has been ongoing since Dec. 24, 2016. That’s when the collapse created a sinkhole beneath the neighborhood.
The legal battle over whether a new mosque should be built in Sterling Heights rages on. Seven residents opposing construction of the mosque filed a federal lawsuit this week against Sterling Heights and its mayor, Michael C. Taylor. Attorney Robert J. Muise with the American Freedom Law Center, one of two lawyers who filed the lawsuit Monday, says the lawsuit is “complicated.”
The Justice Department has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit brought late in President Obama’s term against a Michigan city for turning down an Islamic center’s zoning request to build a mosque. The government lawsuit came after the American Islamic Community Center sued the city of Sterling Heights in August over the denial. The center wanted to build in the city as they …
On the day he came into a $15 million windfall, Rodell Sanders said he is considering a much-deserved vacation. During 20 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Sanders studied the law and devoted himself tirelessly to overturning his conviction for the 1993 murder of Philip Atkins in Chicago Heights. On his way to successfully appealing his guilty verdict, Sanders told relatives not …