The Michigan Defense Trial Counsel (MDTC) has announced that Edward M. Kronk and Peter L. Dunlap have been selected to receive the 18th Annual Excellence in Defense Award.
They will be honored Saturday, May 15, at the annual award banquet as a highlight of MDTC’s Annual Meeting and Conference being held at The Doubletree Hotel in Bay City.
The award was established by MDTC to honor prominent civil defense counsel who have throughout their careers demonstrated superior professionalism and advocacy skills and who have contributed significantly to his or her communities and the defense trial bar.
Kronk is a shareholder based in Butzel Long’s Detroit office and is past co-chair of the firm's Litigation Department.
He joined Butzel Long as an associate in 1971 after earning his law degree from The University of Michigan that year.
Dunlap joined Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap PC in 1967.
His areas of practice include Alternative Dispute Resolution, legal malpractice, products liability, personal injury litigation and professional responsibility.
Cooley’s Notable Books Program continues
Cooley Law School will present Dr. James M. McClurken, author of Our People, Our Journey: the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians as part the 2010 Michigan Notable Books Program.
McClurken will speak at Cooley's Grand Rapids campus, 111 Commerce Ave. SW, on Wednesday, May 12 at noon, and in Lansing at 5 p.m. the same day, at the Brennan Law Library, 330 S. Washington Square.
On Thursday, May 13, the author will speak at noon at the Auburn Hills campus, 2630 Featherstone, and at 5 p.m. at the Ann Arbor campus, 3475 Plymouth Road.
The events are free and open to the public.
Court won’t hear appeal in Scout case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has decided to let stand a ruling saying the Boy Scouts cannot lease city-owned parkland in San Diego because the group is a religious organization.
The high court refused to hear an appeal from San Diego-area Boy Scouts who have traditionally leased Balboa Park camp space.
U.S. District Judge Napoleon Jones Jr. ruled in 2003 that San Diego acted improperly when it leased 18 acres of camp space to the Scouts because the group is a religious organization. The judge said the lease violated federal law that prohibits the government promotion of religion.
The Boy Scouts say they have no theology and only hold the position that children should “do duty to God” to become productive citizens.
The American Civil Liberties Union had sued San Diego and the Boy Scouts in August 2000 on behalf of a lesbian couple and an agnostic couple, each with scouting-age sons. They filed the lawsuit after the City Council voted to extend the group’s 50-year lease for another 25 years.
The Boys Scouts have been the target of preferential treatment lawsuits since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2000 that the group has a constitutional right to exclude openly gay men from serving as troop leaders and because it compels members to swear an oath of duty to God.
The group had received support from the Bush administration, which in 2004 filed a friend of the court brief arguing that even though the organization believes in God and members take an oath to do their duty to God, it is not a religious organization.
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