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The property of a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice is in the news — 126 years after his departure from

The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia over the weekend prompted me to review Michigan’s history of justices

On this date in 1928, Justice John E. Bird passed away unexpectedly at his home in Adrian, Michigan. It was

On this date in 1988, the New York Times published the obituary of G. Mennen Williams. The former Michigan Supreme

On this date in 1903 Justice Eugene Black was born in Marine City, Michigan. Black graduated from Port Huron High

Peter Moody was only 17 years old when his father, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Blair Moody, Jr., passed away unexpectedly.

Thomas M. Cooley was born on this date 192 years ago — January 6, 1824. Like many of Michigan’s early

Justice John Voelker’s best selling novel-turned-Academy Award nominated film, Anatomy of a Murder, will air on Turner Classic Movies at

  Long before Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Dorothy Comstock Riley was lighting

The Bench, written by former Chief Justice Thomas E. Brennan and first published in 1997, is an alternative history of