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End of July is always high season for the Michigan Supreme Court as it completes its term but this week has been something.
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The Michigan Supreme Court has released opinions in No. 162482, Rouch World, LLC v Michigan Department of Civil Rights, that was argued on March 2, 2022. buff.ly/3cCAHmz
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2/ On the 1st anniversary of Floyd's murder, we introduced bipartisan bills re: duty to intervene, chokeholds, no knocks, use of force, bodycams, license revocation and more.
On the 2nd anniversary, these bills continue to sit in committee w/o a vote.
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Irwin: This is embarrassing. We have a senator who made a motion on two measures that could protect our people. The majority wants to squelch debate.
Let's not bury this legislation in committee. Do you stand with gun safety, or do you stand with the gun lobby?
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Irwin: Republicans are trying to bury any action to make our schools safer, to make our kids safer. And they're doing it at the behest of the gun lobby, a minority of citizens.
You might have thought this discussion would have been different after Oxford. It's not
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Have you ever participated in a drug court or know anyone who works for a drug court who could get this info out to their current/former participants?
Check out this call for study participants (for an interview), sign up, and get a $20 gift card!
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The new option being offered isn’t just a few extra dollars. It’s $600/month/kid. The previous part time/flexible options allowed us to rearrange our schedules to make SACC affordable. This isn’t even for the lucky few who’ll win the (actual!) lotto to get care.
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Ann Arbor’s abrupt cancellation of before & after-school child care (latchkey) is upending the balance of life & work in one of Michigan’s most affluent cities.
My #CrainsForum column profiling working parents who have been waylaid by this local decision:
crainsdetroit.com/voices-chad-li
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An important decision out of California today.
courts.ca.gov/opinions/docum
The real question: Is “Michiganderanians” a #portmanNo or a good compromise because it makes no one happy?
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Thanks all for your fun and interesting responses to this tweet. Yes, I remember Meijer's Thrifty Acres too, so I appreciate the debate. And yes, even though it was technically a mispronunciation, it's one that a lot of Michiganderanians can relate too. twitter.com/jonathanoostin…
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Men get ahead in the labor force, in part, because male managers are much more likely to schmooze/socialize with their male employees rather than their female employees.
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The Michigan Supreme Court has issued a unanimous per curiam opinion today in No. 158663, People of Michigan v Troy Antonio Brown, which was not argued at a session of the Court. buff.ly/2VEkIIR
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I actually heard from somebody who heard from somebody else that they heard Jeff say that he had vanquished the evil serpent Apopis, so now I am demanding an investigation into whether Sen. Irwin is the sun god Ra.
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Rep. LaGrand, D-GR: “There has to be a rational threshold before we do investigations. If I somehow asserted that Sen Irwin was the sun god Ra, we wouldn’t have to investigate that.” twitter.com/jonathanoostin…
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Four more deaths in Illinois prisons from COVID--all of minimum security prisoners with short outdates. Why were they in prison at all? When are they going to just send people home?
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It has been a busy week at the Court:
courts.michigan.gov/Courts/Michiga
There is so much to read between the lines in this motion.
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It essentially accuses Cameron of hiding behind grand jury secrecy requirements while misleading the public about evidence the grand jury actually saw. It asks the court to release the record in the interest of justice, transparency, and accountability.
drive.google.com/file/d/1nkhxCZ
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Don’t wait until Nov, early voting is now available!
aka Captain Planet has a very special message for you:
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Calling all legal scholars to explain to me new asylum app instructions changing “evidence you should submit” to “evidence you must should submit.” “Must Should” is a new term for me.
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#Language changes with use. Who's capping "Black" and "White"? And how can #editors decide which style to follow? My latest blog post has some answers: zcu.io/vTew #writingstyle #amediting #amwriting
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Here’s John Lewis torching the Supreme Court for gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
“Those justices were never beaten or jailed for trying to register to vote. They have no friends who gave their lives for the right to vote. I want to say to them, Come and walk in my shoes.”
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Kid 2: Mom, come look at this!
Me: I can’t look at it right now, honey. I really need to focus on some things at work.
Kid 2: Okay. I’ll come show you right now.
Me: 🤷🏻♀️ Looks at thing, laughs approvingly, loses complete train of thought regarding work. #WFH
In January, in the first known case of its kind, a man in Michigan was arrested for a crime he did not commit due to a flawed algorithmic facial recognition match. I told his story here:
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'curfew' is from Old French meaning 'cover fire'; in medieval English, a curfew was an evening bell that rang as a signal to put out your lights and fires, so your home didn't catch alight overnight.
Trying to think of a metaphor. Anyway, fight against systemic oppression 24/7.
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The trolley is barreling down the track towards five grandmothers. You can pull the switch and redirect it so that it kills no one. But you have to wear a mask to buy a toaster oven. What do you do?
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But they aren’t allowed to carry signs.
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Protesters are allowed into the Senate gallery ... #mileg twitter.com/SenPolehanki/s…
Dale Zorn wore a confederate flag face mask in our capitol today. He walked past the display of Michigan’s bloodied Civil War battle flags wearing an emblem of our defeated foe. We all know what that flag stands for. He should be recalled.
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The Confederate flag should never be worn, especially by an elected official.
Don't split hairs on this w/ excuses about flags vs. bandanas.
It dishonors our fellow Michiganders.
It dishonors the battle flags in our rotunda.
It dishonors our state.
wlns.com/news/local-new
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Feel free to unblock the syllabuses and headnotes for the Michigan Reports and the Michigan Appeals Reports. We own the copyright, and we want the public to be able to see our excellent case summaries.
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If you need help understanding when to refer to the coronavirus and when it's COVID-19, not to mention why you need "the" in front of coronavirus, check out our extensive AP Stylebook Topical Guide.
It's open to everyone. No login required.
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A judge in Northampton County, which just had the first COVID-19 death in the state, set cash bail & incarcerated a 71-year-old man who was accused of peeing in a bush.
Continued reliance on cash bail for petty crimes is going to exacerbate the pandemic
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“Crucially, it made no difference if the jargon terms – like “vigilance decrement” and “laparoscopy” – were defined in the text: Even when the terms were defined, readers still felt just as disengaged as readers who read jargon that wasn’t explained.”
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A reminder to judges: write for the litigants, the defendants, the broader public, not just for the lawyers. twitter.com/ConsciousStyle
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