Daily Briefs (Dec 21)

Holiday Hours
The Wayne County Clerk’s Office will be closed Friday, Dec. 24 through Monday, Jan. 3 and will re-open Tuesday, Jan. 4. Open Dec. 28, 29 and 30 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. will be: Circuit Court Civil Filings (Rm. 201) and Family Filings and Personal Protection Orders (Rm. 928) located in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center; Criminal Division in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice; Juvenile Division in the Lincoln Hall of Justice. Filings for Department of Human Services and Juvenile Assessment Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. only.

The Office of the City Clerk (200 CAYMC) and the City Clerk Archives and Records Division (65) Cadillac Tower, Ste. 1600) will shut down for the holiday beginning Monday, Dec. 20 through Monday, Jan. 3. The City Clerk offices will reopen during its regular business hours on Wednesday, Jan. 5. (Tuesday, Jan. 4, is a budget-required furlough day.)

The Wayne County Probate Court will close for the holiday season at noon on Thursday, Dec. 23 and reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 8 a.m.

The Wayne County Probate Court will be open Dec. 28, 29, and 30, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to accept pleadings, and to conduct mental health and emergency hearings.

In observance of the 2010 Holiday Season, the 36th District Court will be closed to the public on Friday, Dec. 24, Monday, Dec. 27,  Friday, Dec. 31, and Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Only Criminal Arraignments will be conducted.

The Third Circuit Court Civil, Criminal and Family Divisions will be closed Friday, Dec. 24 and Mondqy, Dec. 27 in observance of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

On Tuesday, Dec. 28, Wednesday, Dec. 29, and Thursday, Dec. 30, the court will be open for essential services only, including criminal arraignments, probation violation, failure to appear warrants, personal protection orders, parental waivers, and other emergency civil and family division matters. The County Clerk’s Office will be open to accept civil and domestic relations pleadings and new case filings from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on those days.

The court will be closed on Friday, Dec. 31 and Monday, Jan. 3 in observance of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and will re-open on Tuesday, Jan. 4.

The emergency procedure that is published in the Detroit Legal News every Friday should be followed or any after-hour emergency matter.

Army engineer loses lawsuit over spy probe
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man wrongly suspected of spying for Israel has failed to persuade a federal court to reinstate a lawsuit against the government.

An appeals court said Monday that David Tenenbaum is making the same arguments that led to the dismissal of a similar lawsuit filed in the late 1990s.

Tenenbaum sued the government again in 2009 after the Pentagon inspector general said his Orthodox Jewish religion was a factor in the espionage investigation.

Tenenbaum believes the report helps him claim that the government wrongly invoked a state-secrets defense to get the first case dismissed.

The engineer works at an Army tank command in Warren, a Detroit suburb. Tenenbaum was never formally accused of spying for Israel but has said the investigation hurt his career.

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