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The Capital press corps were all there, crowded into the lobby outside the courtroom on the third floor of the Law Building. Even the TV c...

Excluding family, Jim Ryan is my oldest and dearest friend on the planet. He is now a retired United States Court of Appeals Judge. Very dis...

It is not widely known, but the second woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court was also the first Hispanic. Josephine Grima was born in...

I always liked Frank Kelley. We were both hot shot young Irish lawyers in Detroit over half a century ago. Frank loved to preside at the mid...

In December,1982 the Supreme Court of Michigan was in a state of flux. The seats were being emptied and filled like a children’s party game....

In January of every odd numbered year, the justices of the Michigan Supreme Court elect a Chief Justice. That’s because in November of the e...

Everybody called him ‘Soapy.’ His real name was Gerhard Mennen Williams. His father was a minister, his mother CEO of the Mennen Company whi...