Daily Briefs

 OCBA presents Cooley Law prof Distinguished Service Award June 11

Gerald A. Fisher, Cooley Law School professor, received the Oakland County Bar Association’s (OCBA) Distinguished Service Award at the 19th Annual Awards during the association’s 80th Annual Meeting on June 11. 

The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a member of the OCBA who provides exceptional volunteer service to benefit the organization and who has shown superior dedication to the OCBA, legal community and the general public. 
 
Fisher is a past president and has been a member of the board of the OCBA for more than 20 years. Before joining Cooley Law School, he was a senior partner and manager of the Municipal Practice Group at Secrest Wardle. At
Cooley, Fisher teaches property, secured transactions, constitutional law, zoning and land use law, and state and local government law.

“I am honored to receive the Oakland County Bar Association’s Distinguished Service Award and want to thank the outstanding legal community in Oakland County in return,” said Fisher.

Fisher accepted the award along with two additional recipients Elizabeth L. Luckenbach, partner at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, and James M. Reid IV., a shareholder at Maddin, Hauser, Roth & Heller, P.C.
 

Critics of Duggan lose election challenges 

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has swept aside challenges to the election of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.
 
Duggan won last summer’s primary election as a write-in candidate and was elected mayor in November. Another candidate, Tom Barrow, and other critics sued, alleging a variety of violations, from Duggan’s eligibility to the perforation on absentee ballots.
 
The appeals court unanimously affirmed decisions by a Wayne County judge in favor of the Duggan campaign. The opinion was released Wednesday.

Duggan’s critics can claim a mild victory. The appeals court turned down the campaign’s request for financial penalties. The campaign considered the litigation to be “frivolous.”
 

Judge who had relationship with lawyer wins appeal 

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A lawyer who sued after a nearly 20-year relationship with a Genesee County judge turned sour has lost her case at the Michigan appeals court.
The court rejected Denise Ketchmark’s claims of emotional distress, negligence and fraud against Judge Archie Hayman. The court affirmed a decision by an Oakland County judge.
Ketchmark says she had a romantic relationship with Hayman from 1993 to 2012. She says it ended when she learned Hayman planned to marry another woman. She also blamed him for health problems.
In a decision released Wednesday, the appeals court says the allegations aren’t enough for a trial. The court says Ketchmark knew that her relationship with Hayman wasn’t exclusive when he married another woman in 2001.

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