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Snyder appoints Alexis Krot to 31st District Court in Hamtramck


Gov. Rick Snyder announced last week the appointment of Alexis Krot to the 31st District Court in Wayne County.

“Alexis has demonstrated her skills and commitment to Hamtramck both as magistrate and in private practice,” Snyder said. “I have the utmost confidence in her ability to seamlessly transition to the bench and continue to serve her community with integrity and distinction.”

Krot currently serves as the Magistrate in the 31st District Court and has a family law practice, giving her broad experience and familiarity with the business of this district court. She previously had been with the Detroit law firm Allen Brothers and clerked for Kilpatrick & Associates in Auburn Hills. Krot is a member of the Michigan Association of District Court Magistrates, the Polish American Legal Society, Incorporated Society of Irish American Lawyers, the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, the Macomb County Bar Association, the State Bar of Michigan, and is a trustee for the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Krot earned a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Detroit Mercy and a law degree from Loyola University.

Krot fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Paul Paruk. She must seek election in November 2018 for the remainder of the term ending in 2020.

 

Michigan getting $3.4 million in settlement with drug maker
 

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan is expected to get nearly $3.4 million of a multi-state settlement with a pharmaceutical company.

Attorney General Bill Schuette says in a statement Friday that the money is part of a $125 million national settlement with Cephalon.

Part of the money will go to Michigan consumers who bought the drug Provigil.

The settlement ends a multistate investigation into conduct by Cephalon that delayed generic versions of Provigil from entering the market for years, causing consumers to pay higher prices.
The company denied wrongdoing. The settlement is subject to court review.

 

Transit authority puts transportation plan before counties’ voters
 

DETROIT (AP) — Voters in four southeastern Michigan counties will decide whether the area gets a regional public transit system.

The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan’s board voted Thursday to place a master transit plan on November general election ballots in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties.

The plan includes a millage to raise an estimated $3 billion. Another $1.7 billion would come from federal and state matching funds.

It would create rapid transit lines and regional rail service. It also would supplement and connect current service offered in Detroit, suburban communities around the city, and the Ann Arbor area.

Bus rapid transit routes would operate between downtown Detroit and Pontiac in Oakland, downtown Detroit and M-59 in Macomb and downtown Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in Washtenaw.

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