The story in BBC News, Ruby Franke: '8 Passengers' parenting mum arrested on child abuse suspicion, written by Madeline Halpert is a story for our times. A YouTube vlogger on parenting advice with 2 million followers has been charged with horrendous child abuse. It...
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Nacht Comments on MSU’s Mel Tucker Title IX Case
Attorney David Nacht was quoted with some balanced quotes as a Title IX lawyer who represents complainants and respondents at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. Below is just one of his quotes from the recent Detroit News article, "MSU leaders...
Executive Severance, Vested Options and Shares
Long term incentive compensation sometimes takes the form of phantom shares; other times options and other times simple awards of shares. All involve getting the value of a piece of equity. There is always a vesting schedule and the executive facing a termination...
NIH Targeting Professors
Are you a professor with federal grant money? Did you expect that you were entitled to due process before your grants were suspended? That was the old days. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is on a new mission to clean up the evils in academia. They seem to be...
Michigan Super Lawyers 2023 Announcement
We are pleased to announce that Attorneys David Nacht, Nicholas Roumel, and Amanda Ghannam were recognized as 2023 Michigan Super Lawyers and Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters. David Nacht received his 10-year Super Lawyers milestone badge and was named to the “Michigan...
Corporate Lawyers vs. Trial Lawyers
When to hire a trial lawyer instead of a corporate lawyer Corporate lawyers, or in-house lawyers, assist companies while they conduct regular business. They may draw up and review contracts, ensure regulatory compliance and even help with taxes. Trial lawyers defend...
Michigan Supreme Court Opinion Effectively Shortens Time to File Discrimination Lawsuits against State of Michigan
On May 2, 2023, the Michigan Supreme Court issued a decision in Christie v. Wayne State University, case no. 162706. The Supreme Court’s 7-0 decision holds that in order to file a lawsuit against the State of Michigan or any of its departments, commissions, boards,...
My thoughts on why book banning is a bad idea
My thoughts after reading the article from The New York Times on May 7, 2023, "My Book is Horrifying. My Book is a Lifeline. My Book is Banned.": One of the touchstones I had as a young man was that if the Nazis or the Soviets put great stock in a tool, then it was...
Understanding the ‘Red Flag’ Law and Senate Bill 83
Michigan is one step closer to having so-called red flag laws on the books as Governor Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign Senate Bill 83 into legislation. David Nacht knows the law and his way around a courtroom. So, WPBN asked him to read Senate Bill 83 for us....
Violent trend of school shootings
School shootings are again in the news, at the Universities of Virginia and Idaho. At Virginia, the suspect was previously investigated for possession of a gun, had a concealed weapons violation that he failed to report to University officials as required, and was...