DIA vows to act to protect art collection
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Institute of Arts says it remains committed to taking action if city-owned parts of its collection are threatened by the city’s bankruptcy.
The statement from the museum was issued after U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes ruled that Detroit is eligible to fix its finances in bankruptcy court.
Emergency manager Kevyn Orr has acknowledged that some art at the Detroit Institute of Arts is owned by the city and not held in trust by the museum.
Appraisals are pending.
The museum it opposes efforts by certain creditors to allow them to form a committee to oversee the valuation and sale or “monetization” of art.
The museum says it is hopeful that Orr will recognize the city’s duty to “protect the museum art collection for future generations.”
AG wants juvenile lifers to remain jailed
ANN ARBOR (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general is pledging to challenge court rulings that could lead to parole for prisoners convicted of murders committed when they were under 18.
Bill Schuette says he will appeal the decisions of Ann Arbor federal Judge John Corbett O’Meara, who has ordered the state to start the parole review process for more than 300 inmates.
The judge says the prisoners deserve to benefit from a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down mandatory no-parole sentences for teens. Schuette says the decision shouldn’t apply retroactively.
O’Meara last week set a Jan. 31 deadline for the state to give him an update. Schuette says the judge has exceeded his authority.
City plans own crime lab to speed results
WYOMING (AP) — The Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming is planning to create its own crime lab as part of an effort to get evidence analyzed more quickly.
WOOD-TV reports that the Wyoming City Council has approved spending $100,000 on lab equipment after its police department complained that it took too long for results to come back from the Michigan State Police crime lab.
The state police crime lab currently analyzes evidence for most law enforcement agencies in the state. The Wyoming Police Department said it can take two weeks for results on seized drugs and two to three weeks on blood evidence, delaying court cases.
City officials say its costs will be offset by not using the state lab.
Court ends Liberty U. lawsuit over health law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away a Christian university's attempt to overturn a key part of the Obama administration's health care law.
The justices did not comment in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling dismissing Liberty University's lawsuit.
Liberty made several arguments in challenging the portion of the health care law that requires most employers to provide health insurance to their workers or pay a fine. The 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Richmond, Va., rejected those claims.
The Supreme Court separately is considering whether for-profit corporations can mount religious objections to the law's requirement to include birth control among preventive health benefits.\
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