Michigan Employment Law Blog

Many Americans are critical of labor unions.  They see unions as organizations that keep bad employees on the job.  Or they see them as controlling who gets on the job at all. We can and do dispute those characterizations. But what most Americans forget is that in...

NachtLaw obtained an important opinion for a Wayne State University Professor continuing NachtLaw’s string of victories for professors and students at universities in Michigan (prior successful opinions in the last 18 months  include cases concerning  University...

We have criminalized the failure to pay civil infraction tickets, such as parking or speeding or driving with a busted tail light.  How?  We suspend driver’s licenses for these folks, and then we charge them with the misdemeanor of driving on a suspended license. As I...

I have blogged before about the tremendous drop in crime In the past 20 years but the never dropping fear of crime by Americans.  In this thoughtful piece of cultural criticism, the TV critic, James Poniewozik, for the New York Times blames television police and crime...

In my last blog, I expressed concern about the tendency of a few on the Left to embrace violence to property.  However, as this piece makes clear, the much more significant danger to the Republic from domestic terrorism lies on the Right, in which a merger of...

Don’t lose faith in the law.  Who is Obi-Wan and who is Darth Vader?  How do we know when we cross from good to evil?  In this very sad case, two promising young lawyers are accused of violent acts. It is easy to lose faith in the law, and the ability of the people to...

On June 13, 2020, Ann Arbor civil rights lawyer David Nacht released language that he has proposed to Michigan legislators to combat police misconduct.  Nacht, who previously served as a legislative aide to US Senator John Glenn, wants to turn the public conversation...

Healthcare fraud is a major problem, and it is good that the Federal Government is targeting it. Sometimes, however, doctors and other professionals are targeted for criminal investigation simply because they practice in certain specialties. For instance, NachtLaw has...

On Monday, June 1, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced plans to lift the state’s stay-at-home order and allow many Michigan businesses to reopen, with certain restrictions still in place. However, the coronavirus has not been eliminated, and many workers may not feel safe returning to work. The attorneys at NachtLaw, P.C. can help you navigate your employment situation.

We have tolerated a legal system that makes it very difficult to succeed in suing police officers for unwarranted violent acts. Congress and the state legislatures must alter these doctrines to make lawsuits against rogue cops and the police departments that tolerate them easier to bring.