Get to know members of circuit court staff
The Macomb County Bar Association and its Young Lawyers Section are hosting a networking event next month during which area attorneys can meet with clerks and other staff members at Macomb County Circuit Court.
The gathering is scheduled for Thursday, September 13, starting at 5:01 p.m. at Madison’s Top Deck in downtown Mt. Clemens.
The event is free and reservations aren’t necessary
For further information, contact the MCBA at 586.468.2940
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Lawsuit seeks to stop state wolf hunt
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A coalition is suing the Department of Natural Resources to try to stop Wisconsin’s planned wolf hunt.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports a group of humane societies filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Dane County Circuit Court.
The lawsuit claims the DNR failed to put in place regulations to prevent the inhumane deaths of hunting dogs in confrontations with wolves.
The five-month wolf hunt is scheduled to begin Oct. 15. It is the only such hunt in the nation in which hunters would be allowed to use dogs.
The lawsuit seeks an injunction to halt the hunt until the DNR establishes reasonable restrictions on the use of dogs.
A DNR spokesman says the agency is disappointed to hear of the lawsuit but had not had a chance to review it.
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Defense lawyer’s contempt case tossed
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California appeals court says a judge should not have sentenced a lawyer five days in jail and fined him $2,500 for being unprepared for trial.
Defense attorney Tim Pori, who is representing Andrew Toon Wong in an Oakland double-murder case, told the judge on the day trial was to start that he wasn’t ready because he was busy preparing for another murder trial.
But Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carrie told Pori he had been given enough time to prepare and he was ordered to jail and fined.
The San Francisco Chronicle says the 1st District Court of Appeal overturned the contempt ruling because the judge didn’t warn Pori earlier that he was facing jail time and a fine if he wasn’t prepared.
Wong’s trial is still pending.
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Intern can’t sue Oregon chimpanzee sanctuary
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals says an intern whose thumb was bitten off by a chimpanzee can’t sue the Chimps Inc. sanctuary because she signed a liability waiver.
The appeals court recently affirmed a Deschutes County Circuit court decision that Kristen M. Howard cannot go forward with the $828,000 lawsuit she filed.
The Oregonian reports Howard was an anthropology student in 2008 when she took an internship at the Tumalo nonprofit.
It requires interns not to sue or even talk about their experiences at the sanctuary that provides a home for chimps that once lived in roadside zoos or worked in the entrainment industry.
Howard was cleaning a cage when she was attacked by a chimp named Kimie that found a way back into the cage.
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