Benefit on tap to help area foster children
The Seventh Generation will hold its annual fundraising event, In Seventh Heaven, on Saturday, April 12, at the Roostertail in Detroit.
The organization was founded and is supported by the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Foundation in cooperation with Wayne County Circuit Court and the Michigan Department of Human Services.
The nonprofit matches donations of goods and services with foster children, teens, and families in need.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $125 each. The Roostertail is located at 100 Marquette Drive.
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Viviano, Zahra will run for court in the fall
LANSING (AP) — Two state Supreme Court justices want voters to keep them in office.
Brian Zahra and David Viviano say they’ll run in the fall election. As incumbents, they can automatically get on the ballot, but they’ll also seek a nomination from the state Republican Party.
Both justices were appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican. Zahra is seeking a full eight-year term while Viviano is running for the two years remaining in the term of Diane Hathaway.
Hathaway quit the court a year ago because of a criminal case involving a short sale on her Detroit-area home.
Justices nominated by Republicans or appointed by Snyder have a 5-2 edge on the Supreme Court. There will be three court seats on the fall ballot.
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Two dozen groups oppose Obama nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-seven liberal groups have united in calling on Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject one of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees.
The groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Human Rights Campaign, oppose the nomination of Michael Boggs to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
In a letter sent last week, the groups cited Boggs’ record as a state legislator in the Georgia Assembly on issues such as abortion, gay rights and civil rights. They cited his support for legislation on parental notification and a vote for keeping the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag.
Boggs was elected in 2000 and served until 2004.
The groups urged the committee’s 10 Democrats to oppose Boggs’ confirmation.
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Feds toughens rules for large foreign banks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will require the largest foreign banks operating in the United States to hold higher levels of capital reserves to protect against potential loan losses.
The stricter regulations the Fed adopted Tuesday are intended to prevent the types of threats that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.
The requirements are similar to those already adopted for big U.S. banks.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen, presiding at her first public meeting of the central bank’s board, said the changes will “help address the sources of vulnerability” exposed by the crisis. The rules were adopted by a 5-0 vote.
Foreign banks had objected to the changes. They argued that the stricter rules would raise the cost of doing business in the United States and reduce the loans they could provide.
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