DMBA Barristers to host 25th annual Summer Breeze mixer
The DMBA Barristers Section invites attorneys and judges throughout metro-Detroit to join them from 5:30–8 p.m. on Thursday, July 19 for the best networking event of the season — the Summer Breeze and Law Clerk Party. Now in its 25th year, the Summer Breeze is an ideal opportunity for new attorneys, summer associates and law clerks to meet members of the judiciary and other legal professionals. The evening’s celebration, held at “Amnesia” (located on the 16th Floor of the MotorCity Casino Hotel), will also recognize some of the area’s best and brightest young attorneys, as the Section announce the winners of the 2012 Barristers Awards.
Registration is free for members of the DMBA Barristers and Law Student Sections, as well as members of the judiciary. All others pay $20.
Registration is available at www.detroitlawyer.org/upcomingevents.html.
ACLU sues state over reading on behalf of Highland Park students
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing on behalf of more than 950 Highland Park Public Schools students and their parents, claiming children aren't getting the tools needed to learn to read.
ACLU of Michigan Executive Director Kary Moss told reporters at a news conference Thursday the lawsuit is about “a right of children to read.”
The suit against the state and others seeks class-action status. It claims that students in the district have received poor education.
The Associated Press left messages seeking comment from state officials named in the suit.
The Detroit-area district is among the poorest performing in the state.
Gov. Rick Snyder appointed an emergency manager in May to fix Highland Park Schools' budget deficit, which rose from $6.6 million to more than $11 million.
Judge won’t revisit financial deal lawsuit
LANSING (AP) — A judge won’t reconsider an earlier ruling that dismissed a lawsuit challenging a financial stability agreement between Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and the state of Michigan.
Detroit Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon had asked Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette to take another look at the ruling he made last month.
Collette denied her motion Tuesday. He ruled on June 13 that Crittendon didn’t receive permission to sue.
Crittendon said the consent deal with the state violated the city’s charter based on $220 million in revenue sharing and other items that she said Michigan owes Detroit. Gov. Rick Snyder has denied that claim.
Bing thanked the judge Wednesday for ruling quickly on the motion, and the mayor renewed his criticism of the city’s top lawyer. The City Council earlier rejected Bing’s request that it fire her.
Bing said the legal dispute has cost Detroit money in the form of higher interest rates for borrowing, as well as “further jeopardizing the city’s revenue-sharing payments from the state.”
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