Muslim Bar hosts scholarship dinner
The Michigan Muslim Bar Association will host its Annual Scholarship Dinner on Thursday, September 26 at Byblos Banquet Hall in Dearborn.
The event is scheduled from 6-8 p.m.; the hall is located at 7258 Chase Road.
Sponsorships are still available. Gold sponsorship is $1,000 which includes 10 tickets and a banner at the event. Table sponsorship is $750 for 10 tickets.
Individual tickets are $75. Members pay $50 and students pay $35.
To order tickets, contact Dewnya Bazzi at mimuslimbar@gmail.com.
EM says casino money is key to Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit’s state-appointed emergency manager has testified that access to casino tax revenues is key to the city staying afloat financially.
Transcripts of Kevyn Orr’s deposition last week were recently Tuesday.
An attorney for Syncora Guarantee questioned Orr. The debt insurer had questions about a deal that would let Detroit settle millions of dollars in pension debt with two banks for as little as 75 cents on the dollar.
A judge earlier ruled casino tax revenue can’t be withheld from Detroit while the city is seeking Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, during the deposition, Orr said he has “no plans to use art to relieve the liquidity crisis that the city is in now.” Detroit’s financial situation has raised concerns about whether the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection might be at risk of sale.
Court: Mother can’t sue state, agency workers
DOUGLASS TOWNSHIP (AP) — A federal appeals court says a judge was wrong to allow a civil suit to proceed against state Child Protective Services workers and the state by the mother of a nine-year-old western Michigan boy killed by his father in a murder-suicide.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled recently that the conduct of state workers wasn’t the “direct cause” of injuries that killed Nicholas Braman.
The court reversed the decision of a federal district judge who’d refused to dismiss the agency and workers as defendants.
Nicholas died in 2007 when Oliver Braman filled a room in his home in Douglass Township with carbon monoxide. Oliver Braman and his wife also died.
Days earlier, Oliver Braman skipped his sentencing for abusing two other sons.
State high court hears challenge to pledge
BOSTON (AP) — A family asked Massachusetts’ highest court this week to ban the daily practice of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, arguing that the words “under God” in the pledge discriminate against atheists.
A lawyer for an atheist couple who sued on behalf of their three children argued that the reference to God suggests that “good patriots are God believers” and nonbelievers are less patriotic or unpatriotic.
David Niose, an attorney representing the family and the American Humanist Association, rejected the argument that because the pledge is voluntary, it does not discriminate against atheists.
A lawyer for the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District argued that students can opt out by either leaving out the reference to God or by not reciting the pledge.
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