Michigan’s governmental immunity laws have long stymied families of victims who have been killed by law enforcement officials, while homeowners face an uphill battle in their fight for property damages allegedly caused by public officials.
Michigan’s governmental immunity laws have long stymied families of victims who have been killed by law enforcement officials, while homeowners face an uphill battle in their fight for property damages allegedly caused by public officials.
A massive lawsuit over the Edenville Dam disaster is moving closer to a decision in Michigan’s Court of Claims.
The next phase in the Edenville Dam disaster trial has begun.
More than five and a half years after the Edenville dam collapsed, an 11-day civil trial closed Tuesday in the Michigan Court of Claims.
Since the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, the law enforcement protocol for responding to active shootings is to stop the attacker as quickly as possible.
The gruesome deaths of two unarmed young men fleeing police on foot in the Grand Rapids area in April 2024 – one was pinned against a wall by a police vehicle, while the other was hit and run over – are among numerous cases pending in state courts challenging a decades-old law protecting local government, tribal agencies, and their employees from civil lawsuits.
WDIV | Nov. 15, 2025 – Five years after the Edenville Dam failure, the community continues to deal with the aftermath of the disaster that destroyed Wixom Lake and impacted roughly 11,000 residents.
NewsNation | September 20, 2024 – Ven explained why the Michigan Court of Appeals made the wrong decision to throw the Oxford High School shooting lawsuit out of court, and why the case should be tried in front of a jury.
FOX 2 Detroit | September 19, 2024 – Chief Appellate Attorney Chris Desmond discussed taking the Oxford High School shooting lawsuit to the Supreme Court, where he’ll argue how governmental immunity deprives individuals of their right to a jury trial.
NewsNation | May 22, 2024 – Ven discussed the potential implications of a newly announced lawsuit against nearly 100 officers following the nation’s largest school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and drew parallels to the civil lawsuits still to come for Oxford Community Schools.
CNN | June 2, 2024 – Ven explained why the death of Samuel Sterling, who was struck by an unmarked MSP SUV, was no mistake and could have been avoided.
NewsNation | April 9, 2024 – Ven and Craig Shilling spoke with Elizabeth Vargas of NewsNation after both Jennifer and James Crumbley received a sentence of 10-15 years