State Bar conducts Professionalism Program
The State Bar Professionalism Program for incoming law students and invited judges and attorneys will take place at the Detroit Athletic Club on Friday August 27.
The program, scheduled from 3:30-6 p.m., matches 50 prominent metro Detroit area lawyers and judges with small groups of new law students to work through a series of ethical and professionalism problems during orientation.
The program will begin with a welcome by Dean Robert Ackerman and selected others, proceed with the small group discussion of the ethical problems and end with a reception.
For more information about this event, contact Marilyn Vaughan at 313.577.4822 or ak1557@wayne.edu
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Gallery sued over removal of artwork
DETROIT (AP) — A company that claims ownership of the Packard plant in Detroit has sued a gallery over the removal of an 8-foot, 1,500-pound section of cinderblock wall featuring stenciled artwork and a message by elusive British graffiti artist Banksy.
The Detroit News reports that Bioresource Inc. says in the lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court that the mural taken by 555 galleries and studio could be worth $100,000 or more. The company wants the mural returned.
Gallery workers and volunteers converged on the abandoned car plant in mid-May and removed the mural.
It features a figure of a child holding a bucket of red paint and brush alongside the message: “I remember when all this was trees.”
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Boy, 8, tells council: Crack down on crooks
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — Eight-year-old Logan Fisher is fed up with crime. And he’s making sure the leaders of his Minnesota city know it.
Logan was ticked because thieves broke into his Brooklyn Park home last month and stole thousands of dollars worth of electronics, not to mention his wallet filled with quarters.
So the soon-to-be fourth-grader climbed a stool and took the podium at this week’s City Council meeting. The Star Tribune reports he wrote out his speech in pencil, then had his mom type it up.
He said, “We need to get mean and we need to mean it.”
Deputy Police Chief Craig Enevoldsen agreed with Logan on neighbors watching out for neighbors and stepped up police patrols. But he said the boy’s idea to put an armored SWAT vehicle on the streets to scare criminals away wasn’t so practical.
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Man arrested for lawn mower ride on highway
MADRID, Iowa (AP) — A middle-of-the-night ride on a lawn mower landed one Iowa man in jail.
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office says deputies stopped the man on Highway 17 near Madrid around 1 a.m. recently after receiving reports of someone driving a mower all over the road with no headlights. Madrid is about 25 miles northwest of Des Moines.
The man was arrested for drunken driving. The Sheriff’s Office says his blood-alcohol level was .190 — well above Iowa’s limit of .08.
Boone County Sheriff Ron Fehr says it’s illegal in Iowa to drive any kind of motor vehicle anywhere while drunk.
Fehr wasn’t sure how fast the man was going on the six-speed Bolens lawn tractor. The Des Moines Register reports that the top speed for that mower is about 5 mph.
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