Mulligan? Supreme Court sends golf cart case back to judge
FARMINGTON HILLS (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court is sending a golf cart dispute back to the first tee.
Ken Bertin and Doug Mann were playing at Farmington Hills Golf Club in 2013 when Mann accidentally hit Bertin with a cart. Bertin filed a lawsuit over his injuries.
An Oakland County jury said Mann didn't commit reckless misconduct.
Bertin appealed, arguing the legal standard applied by the judge was too high.
In a unanimous decision Wednesday, the state Supreme Court ordered Judge Martha Anderson to take another swing. The court said Bertin deserves a new trial if the judge finds that the risk of being hit by the cart wasn’t reasonably foreseeable.
Detroit retailer seeks to block Eminem's clothing trademark
DETROIT (AP) — Eminem has found himself in an unlikely battle: one over retail, not rap.
The Detroit Free Press reports that fashion designer Clement Brown of the Three Thirteen shop is trying to block Eminem’s trademark request for his apparel line, E13. Brown has held a trademark for his Three Thirteen brand since 2010, and the rapper born Marshall Mathers filed his pending request last year.
Eminem’s clothing line logo turns the “E” backward so it appears as the number three, creating the visual effect of Detroit’s area code, 313.
Brown says the battle over hometown intellectual property claims isn’t personal and that he respects Eminem. But he says it’s “imperative that we have ownership of our creations.”
Court finds religious entanglement by school district
DENVER (AP) — A federal court has ruled that a Colorado school district violated the Constitution when it supported a Christian spring break mission trip.
The Denver Post reports a parent and the American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit against the Douglas County School District after it supported the 2014 trip to Guatemala by a group of students from Highlands Ranch High School’s chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote in the opinion that the district backed an “overtly Christian cause through financial donations, through sending emails and flyers to students’ families, and through hosting the supply drive during school hours over the course of a school week.
Those actions, he said. resulted in “an excessive government entanglement with religion.”
Driver hits 142 mph — right after being cited for speeding
HERSHEY, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa woman ticketed for speeding in Nebraska perhaps didn't take the citation seriously — deputies clocked her driving at 142 mph as she accelerated away from the traffic stop.
The Lincoln County sheriff's office says the woman from Council Bluffs was eventually arrested on suspicion of willful reckless driving after deputies caught up with her for a second time early Saturday.
Deputies first stopped the car around 1 a.m. Saturday on I-80 near North Platte after it was recorded driving 92 mph in a 75 mph zone. The driver was cited and told she could leave.
But she took off at speed and the deputies gave chase, using radar to clock her driving at 142 mph.
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