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Detroit Mercy Law launches Current Events in the Law series


University of Detroit Mercy School of Law launched the Current Events in the Law Series on Friday, September 24, 2021 with two back-to-back sessions. This is a series of panels hosted via Zoom in which Detroit Mercy Law faculty members and other legal experts gather to discuss how the law relates to current events.

Both sessions were moderated by Richard Broughton, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Detroit Mercy Law. The first session was a State of the Law School with Jelani Jefferson Exum, the new dean at Detroit Mercy Law.

Dean Jefferson Exum covered her vision for the law school as the new dean, which include expanding support for academic success and bar preparation across the curriculum, enhancing Detroit Mercy Law’s reputation through increased promotion of faculty scholarship and the development of unique programming, and engaging Detroit Mercy Law’s network of alumni to collaborate on programs and opportunities that serve the school’s social justice mission and dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The second session, titled “Understanding the Law of Reproductive Rights in the U.S. Today,” featured Catherine Archibald, Associate Professor of Law at Detroit Mercy Law, Ederlina Co, Associate Professor at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, and Merissa Kovach, Policy Strategist at ACLU of Michigan. This session was a belated celebration of Constitution Day which was on Friday, September 17, 2021.

Professor Archibald began the session with an overview of the history of reproductive rights in the U.S. and the constitutional basis of reproductive rights in the U.S. Professor Co discussed laws in different states attempting to restrict reproductive rights and court challenges to those laws that have happened in recent years. Kovach covered the landscape for reproductive rights in the state of Michigan.

For more information about future events, please visit: https://law.ud mercy.edu/about-us/events/index.php

 

Ex-convict charged with 3 murders pleads no contest in one
 

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — An ex-convict charged with three murders in two Michigan counties has pleaded no contest in one of the cases.

Isaiah “Zeke” Gardenhire was accused of assaulting a girlfriend near Mount Pleasant in June and fatally stabbing her 13-year-old daughter, Adrie Dembowske, among other crimes.

Gardenhire, 41, pleaded no contest Monday to second-degree murder and other crimes, the Morning Sun reported.

On June 7, after a series of weekend crimes in Isabella County, Gardenhire drove to Flint in a stolen car and surrendered to police outside a liquor store.

Separately, Gardenhire is charged in Ingham County with killing Harley Owens, 39, and his girlfriend Kelsey Coon-Lennon, 29, in April.

At the time of his arrest, Gardenhire was free on bond in an assault case in Mason County. The case was subsequently dropped.



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