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.”
Advertisers tell us that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it seems that diamond stores are not. Sterling Jewelers — the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that owns Kay Jewelers, Zales, and Jared — is facing a class action lawsuit accusing it of gender discrimination. If that wasn’t enough, statements from the lawsuit released this weekend claim that high level managers demanded sex from …
Executives and managers at Sterling Jewelers the parent company of Kay Jewelers and Jared the Galleria of Jewelry are accused of creating a work environment in which sexual harassment and discrimination against women went nearly unchecked. That’s according to 1,300 pages of sworn testimony from current and former employees released Sunday and obtained by The Washington Post. The …
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 …
In 2008, a dozen women employed by Sterling Jewelers sued the company. They’re alleging sexual discrimination at the highest levels. The matter, once argued in contractually mandated private arbitration proceedings, has now evolved into a class-action lawsuit, with the trial beginning next month…