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 Michigan high court allows lawyer to seek costs in FOIA dispute

LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court says an attorney who requested video surveillance from two businesses through the city of Dearborn in a misdemeanor case can seek compensation for related costs.

The Detroit News reports  James Amberg requested copies under the Freedom of Information Act of footage that Dearborn police gathered. The city initially refused, saying it couldn’t be subject to FOIA since the recordings weren’t public records.

After Amberg sued, the city turned over the recordings and asked to end the case. The Michigan Supreme Court justices wrote in an opinion filed Tuesday that “the fact that the documents were created by private entities does not insulate them from FOIA.”

The case now returns to Wayne County Circuit Court, which can consider whether Amberg is entitled to costs and fees.
 

AG says Michigan probe continues into meningitis outbreak 

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says a state investigation continues after federal indictments of 14 people in connection with a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people nationwide.
 
Schuette spoke to reporters by phone Wednesday after participating in a news conference in Boston to announce the indictments. Prosecutors say some employees of the New England Compounding Pharmacy showed an “extreme and appalling indifference to human life.”

Schuette says he can’t offer specifics on Michigan’s ongoing case, but Wednesday’s news provides “a message of hope to victims across the state” that there will be justice.

At least 750 people in 20 states got sick and 64 died after they contracted meningitis and other infections from tainted steroids the company made. Twenty-three of those who died were Michigan residents.
 

Former prep football star gets one year of probation in assault 

DETROIT (AP) — A former Detroit prep football star who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence in connection with an assault on his girlfriend has been sentenced to a year of probation.
 
Seventeen-year-old Jayru Campbell entered the plea last month to the charge that stemmed from accusations he assaulted the 17-year-old girl Sept. 12 in a stairwell at Cass Technical High School. That’s the same day he left jail after serving a sentence for body-slamming a security officer in his school.

Judge Ruth Carter on Wednesday also ordered that Campbell undergo a psychiatric evaluation, anger management classes and enter a mentoring program run by former Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, who was in the courtroom.

Defense lawyer Jeffrey Edison told the court that Campbell “knows that he has to change and make better choices and decisions in the future.”
Prosecutors say Campbell deserved a strong penalty because he’s been given multiple opportunities for change.

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