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.
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.
After several appeals, a lawsuit between a U.P. man and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources involving a deadly snowmobile crash is heading to trial. This has been seven years in the making.
After the Jan. 7 fatal ICE shooting of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis, some officials have urged the public to wait for facts.
A lawsuit alleging cruel and unusual punishment filed against Hillsdale County and a former sheriff’s sergeant, later charged criminally for abuse, has ended.
As a civil trial began in a lawsuit brought against the state of Michigan by Edenville Dam flood victims, it was immediately evident that Trumble, a dam safety engineer at the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), would be a key figure.
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