December 19, 2025
Michigan courts had a memorable year in 2025, issuing rulings that extended protections against automatic life sentences to young adults, struck down abortion restrictions and pulled the plug on criminal cases related to President Donald Trump's so-called fake elector plot.
October 24, 2023
The Sixth Circuit has said it would review a lower court's decision to certify 26 classes of buyers who allege General Motors sold vehicles with defective eight-speed automatic transmissions that caused the vehicles to have hard shifts and shudder.
April 20, 2023
A Michigan federal judge has delayed moving forward with notifying members of 26 statewide classes of drivers who claim General Motors sold vehicles with faulty transmissions, pending the outcome of a Sixth Circuit petition on certification from GM.
March 20, 2023
A Michigan federal judge on Monday certified 26 statewide classes of drivers who claim General Motors sold vehicles with faulty transmissions that caused shudders and hard shifts that made the vehicles difficult to stop and sometimes made it feel as if they had been rear-ended.
December 02, 2019
General Motors LLC is urging a Michigan federal court to throw out a proposed class action accusing the company of selling vehicles with faulty transmissions, arguing consumers couldn't prove the automaker knew about the defects when the cars were sold, among other flaws in the suit.
September 30, 2019
An attorney at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has been named lead counsel in a group of suits in Michigan federal court accusing General Motors LLC of selling cars with defective transmissions.
June 06, 2019
A proposed class action alleging defects in General Motors transmissions should be transferred from Florida to the automaker's home base of Detroit, where an identical suit has already been filed, a federal magistrate judge in the Sunshine State recommended Thursday.