The state of Michigan has sued Countrywide Financial corporation to recover $65 million in state pension funds. The lawsuit filed by Attorney General Bill Schuette in the U.S. District Court in California accuses Countrywide of repeatedly touting its prudent, conservative and risk-managed lending practices, while abandoning them in a drive for greater market share in a booming housing market that began to collapse four years ago. (MRN)

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and Attorneys General from 19 other states are asking a US District Court Judge in Florida to throw out the Federal Health Care Law without trial. The Attorneys General argue the law violates the Constitution by forcing people to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. But, President Obama’s administration contends that Americans should not be allowed to opt out because everyone requires medical care. The Obama administration is asking for a summary judgment on their behalf, arguing the states don't have standing to challenge the law. (MRN)

Attorney General Mike Cox has issued an opinion that shorter-barreled guns such as the "Super Shorty," which is not sawed-off shotguns, can carried by people who register the weapons as a pistol. State law bans a person from cutting down the barrel of a shotgun. Buying, selling or owning a sawed-off shotgun is a five-year felony. However, Cox says a modified shotgun, with an overall length of less than 26 inches and a barrel length of less than 18 inches can be registered as a pistol. The Super-Shorty, manufactured by Serbu Firearms, is a 12-gauge pump shotgun available with pistol grips.

Attorney General Mike Cox joined 12-other attorneys general in filing suit claiming the unconstitutionality of health care legislation signed into law by President Obama. The lawsuit challenges the authority of the government to force people to purchase health insurance. It was filed minutes after President Obama signed the bill into law. The White House predicts the lawsuit will fail.