In a landmark decision that sends a powerful message of equality and justice, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, signed House Bill 4718 into law on July 24, 2024, and Michigan has become the latest state to outlaw the harmful and discriminatory "gay and trans panic...
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Combs “Puff Diddy” Indictment Raises Questions About Overuse of Asset Forfeiture
The Justice Department has indicted one of the most successful and well-known African-American music producers, Sean Combs, for using his music business to host parties in which women were coerced to engage in sex with male prostitutes and to use violence and threats...
David Nacht does not expect the ban on noncompetes to survive
As David Nacht predicted in an interview on Fox News Detroit the day the FTC issued its rule banning noncompetes, a federal judge, Hon. Ada Brown (ND Texas) issued a preliminary injunction throwing out the rule, July 3, 2024. While this is only the first stage of the...
Steps to take if you are charged with a felony
An arrest and subsequent charges of committing a felony crime represent a potentially life-changing future. Those convicted face lengthy prison sentences and other penalties that continue long after incarceration. The complexities of this level of criminal defense are...
Thoughts on the Jennifer Crumbley conviction
The Oxford school mass shooting was horrific. It was the sort of horrible crime that called out for justice. And so, Prosecutor Karen McDonald prosecuted Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the shooter, on a theory of involuntary manslaughter. McDonald made two...
Rare Michigan trial for parents of mass shooter could set precedent
The national spotlight will center on Pontiac this week as jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Oakland County Circuit Court for a trial that experts said could set a precedent for holding parents accountable for their child’s actions. Jennifer and James...
Fighting False Truths
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...
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, 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 Consumer List...
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,...