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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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...
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....
East Cleveland Police Officers Indicted On Multiple Charges Of Police Brutality Arising Out Of Video Coverage Of Assaults
Eleven officers of the East Cleveland Police Department have been indicted by a Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas grand jury on a number of charges involving police brutality. In 2022, Attorney David Nacht brought a civil action on behalf of his client Redrick...
Nacht gets probation for federal court clients
On August 2, 2022, David Nacht obtained a sentence of two years of supervised release for a client who pled guilty to felony fraud in federal court in the Eastern District of Michigan. Nacht focused on the letters of support his client received, her steady employment...
Northern Michigan University drops charges against student for circulating mental health survey
When Dominick Dotson was facing possible expulsion, simply for sending out a campus-wide mental health survey, he reached out to FIRE and Michigan Civil Rights Attorney Nick Roumel. With their advocacy, the expulsion proceedings were canceled and the parties were able...
Hospital Billing – We need to start exercising control of costs without sacrificing care
She Was Told Surgery Would Cost About $1,300. Then the Bill Came: $229,000. Here is a link to the full NY Times story: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/21/us/colorado-hospital-lisa-french.html?referringSource=articleShare A galling fact of hospital billing is that they...