Chris Armstrong

Andrew Shirvell was fired as assistant attorney general in 2010 for waging an anti-gay campaign against former student government president Chris Armstrong.

An appeals court says a fired lawyer for the state of Michigan should not be granted a new trial in a defamation suit filed by a gay former University of Michigan student government president.

The court said attorney general’s office was justified in firing Andrew Shirvell in 2010 because his posts on Facebook and an anti-gay blog, as well as his campus visits and TV appearances, had an adverse impact on the agency’s credibility.

DETROIT — A former assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan who was fired after expressing hostility toward a gay University of Michigan student government president has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the state’s current attorney general and his predecessor.

DETROIT — Former state assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell was ordered to pay $4.5 million in damages after a federal jury on Thursday ruled that his blog — “Chris Armstrong Watch” — which attacked the former University of Michigan’s openly gay student body president, was in fact defamation.

DETROIT — Jury selection began Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit in a civil lawsuit against a former Assistant Attorney General of Michigan, who stands accused of stalking and defaming a gay former student government leader at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

DETROIT — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the former University of Michigan student council president Chris Armstrong, the latest setback for Andrew Shirvell, the former Michigan assistant attorney general who was fired .

LANSING, Mich. — A grievance officer of the state Civil Service Commission on Tuesday ruled that former Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell had made a “media spectacle” of himself and the state’s attorney general’s office after publishing a blog attacking the former University of Michigan student body president for his alleged “radical homosexual agenda.”

Former Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell is claiming in a new lawsuit filed in federal court, that prominent Detroit attorney Deborah Gordon used information she had gathered from prior cases in an effort question his professional behavior and reputation, a move Shirvell contends led to his firing.

DETROIT — Former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell was rebuked by a federal judge this week for attempting to circumvent procedures and find a shortcut way of wrapping up a lawsuit against him for allegedly harassing an openly gay college student.