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Legal Updates
04.17.2012
City Clerk: Proposed Cuts Too Deep For Department
Detroit's City Clerk says a proposed 25 percent cut to the department would prevent her from running the November general election.
04.07.2012
Detroit city attorney's law license suspended over Kwame Kilpatrick text message scandal
Detroit city attorney Valerie Colbert-Osamuede was given a 90-day suspension by the state's attorney discipline panel this week for lying to a judge in the text message scandal that brought down former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and then lying to the legal profession's watchdogs investigating her case.
04.04.2012
Court says Detroit review team is back in business
The Michigan appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit and declared there's nothing in law that limits the service of a review team examining Detroit's finances.
04.13.2012
Jackson City Council paying outside attorneys $295 an hour for stormwater lawsuit work
Miller Canfield of Detroit is billing the city a blended rate of $295 per hour for its attorneys and $90 to $145 hourly for its legal assistants, according to a Jan. 3 contract.
04.16.2012
Dr. Richard Chasdi: Protecting Detroit From Terrorists: How a Softer Approach Overseas Could Help
Here is a scenario of a terrorist assault against the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel along with a set of counter-terror practices we could employ to protect ourselves. It's an unsettling story but one that needs to be heard.
