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July 16, 2013
Feature
- Dedication recognized: Retired judge earns coveted Avadenka Memorial Award
- Civil Panel speaks to students
- Fireworks festivities
- Firm hosts update on legal developments in China, Mexico, India
- Grant program encourages trial courts to innovate, improve service
State
- Legal Aid and Defender hosts 15th annual charity golf outing
- Main Street Oakland County communities receive record number of accreditations
- Drug charges dismissed in strangling probe
- Commissioners welcome Patterson for annual budget address Wednesday
- Woman ordered to trial in fake cancer case
- Pot baked goods off limits in some cases, court says
Nation
- The price of surveillance: Gov't pays to snoop
- Civil rights case vs. Zimmerman won't be simple
- Justice Dept. tightens guidelines on reporter data
Business
headlines Oakland County
- Whitmer signs gun violence prevention legislation
- Department of Attorney General conducts statewide warrant sweep, arrests 9
- Adoptive families across Michigan recognized during Adoption Day and Month
- Reproductive Health Act signed into law
- Case study: Documentary highlights history of courts in the Eastern District
headlines National
- Judge is accused of using racial slur, vulgar terms and ‘libtard’ label for employee offended by his comments
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Colorado Supreme Court considers whether habeas petition can free zoo elephants
- 4th Circuit upholds $1M sanction for law firm that tried to ‘sabotage’ federal court’s authority
- Don’t give money to law schools unless they teach originalism, conservative federal appeals judge says
- Average BigLaw partner compensation increased 26% in 2 years, reaching this high-water mark
