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In a 6-1 ruling Friday, the Michigan Supreme Court’s found the tunnel's approval should have consider factors like alternatives to the project and harm to Michigan’s “public trust resources.”

The Michigan Supreme Court struck down life without parole sentences for people convicted of felony murder before 1980. The ruling is the latest decision limiting mandatory life based on constitutional protections against cruel or unusual punishment.

The two Michigan Supreme Court justices whose terms are expiring say they will run to hold onto their seats.

A zoo in the western Upper Peninsula is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to refuse a case that seeks a ruling that chimpanzees have constitutional rights against wrongful imprisonment.

Michigan prosecutors are still asking for more time to respond to a Michigan Supreme Court decision from April. The court found it unconstitutional to hand down mandatory life prison sentences for crimes committed when someone was 19 or 20 years old.As a result, the state’s young adult lifers must receive a new sentence. Prosecutors got a 180-day window to decide whether to again pursue life without parole in those cases.

A Michigan Supreme Court order means the mother of the Oxford High School shooter will remain in prison while she appeals her involuntary manslaughter convictions.

Michigan Supreme Court to decide who gets the rights of frozen embryos after a divorce.