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  • Nessel wins court ruling protecting housing-assistance program from administration’s cuts

    April 03, 2026

    Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel secured a federal appeals court ruling rejecting the Trump administration’s request to impose harmful restrictions on grant funding that would have left thousands across the country without a place to live.

  • SADO attorneys to argue before the Michigan Supreme Court at April session

    April 03, 2026

    Michigan State Appellate Defender Office’s Dominica R. Convertino, Michael Mittlestat, and Jason Eggert will present argument before the Michigan Supreme Court on April 8, 9 and 22. The cases to be argued present issues associated with the right of an accused to assert his innocence and the effective assistance of counsel, the proper scope of expert testimony, and the appropriate test to determine whether prosecutorial misconduct bars retrial after a mistrial. In two other cases, SADO’s Maya Menlo and Jacqueline Ouvry will argue on behalf of amici SADO and the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan (CDAM).

  • Residents can help direct funding to neighborhood needs

    April 03, 2026

    Oakland County residents can help guide how federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is used. Each year the Neighborhood & Housing Development Division creates a plan for how HUD funds will be spent and the Livable Neighborhoods Community Needs survey helps them to complete the Annual Action Plan.

  • ABA amicus brief supports law firms targeted by executive orders

    April 03, 2026

    The American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in support of law firms that successfully challenged the constitutionality of executive orders targeting the firms for their representations of certain clients and causes disfavored by the current federal administration.

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