The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission alleges that a Troy judge mistreated employees and wrongly dismissed cases, along ...

It was held to address Bryant violating the court’s order not to have any contact with her children or their caregiver. This comes after the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office filed a motion ...

A candidate for an open judge's seat in Oakland County Probate Court is suing her opponent, accusing him of improperly giving an impression he's an incumbent for the position he's now seeking and ...

Probate Judge Daniel A. O’Brien has a last name that goes with decades of county judges. There’s even another Judge Daniel O’Brien. He's a circuit court judge in Oakland County, succeeding ...

Late last month, Kathleen Ryan, an Oakland County Probate Court Judge, was removed from her docket pending an investigation by the Michigan Supreme Court centered on recordings of Ryan using gay slurs ...

Oakland County Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan's damning ... comments made by Judge Ryan merited her removal from the Probate Court docket pending further investigation. I have confidence that the ...

Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan. (Oakland County government via AP) PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit judge is no longer handling cases after a court official turned over recordings of her making ...

A suburban Detroit judge is no longer handling cases after a court official turned over recordings of her making anti-gay insults and referring to black people as lazy. Oakland County Probate ...

In a statement to the Free Press, Coulter called Ryan’s words “abhorrent” and said they justified her removal from the county’s probate court “pending further investigation.” ...

Veteran Oakland County Probate Judge Kathleen Ryan has been relieved of her duties after recordings surfaced of her making racist and anti-gay slurs. The recordings were sent to key public officials, ...

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