Mediation training offered by nonprofit
The Resolution Services Center of Center Michigan is offering mediation training next month in Grand Ledge.
Organizers say the training fulfills the court rule 2.411 training requirement to be listed on the court roster of approved mediators.
However, individuals with other backgrounds and educational achievements are welcome to participate.
The center is a non-profit organization and provides mediation services in Clinton, Ionia, Gratiot, Ingham, Eaton and Shiawassee counties.
Training will be held at the First United Methodist Church, 411 Harrison, in from 8:30-5:30 on August 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 2011. The trainer will be Susan Butterwick, an attorney and an experienced mediator and trainer.
The cost is $700. Additional information and registration forms can be obtained by calling 517.485.2274.
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‘Shining Star’ award winner announced
The State Bar of Michigan Paralegal/Legal Assistant Section congratulates Charlie Campbell, winner of the July 2011 Shining Star Award. Campbell received the award for his work helping low-income people in Kent County.
He is the program coordinator at Legal Assistance Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in Grand Rapids. He began working at the center as a student intern and continued to volunteer there after he
graduated from Davenport University and was hired by an attorney in private practice.
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California prisoners refuse state food
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of California inmates have joined a hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison, officials said.
Prisoners at the specialized maximum security unit at Pelican Bay began refusing meals on July 1 in protest of their conditions. Inmates in 13 of the state’s 33 prisons then refused state-issued food in solidarity.
A prison spokeswoman said 6,600 inmates joined the strike at its peak.
The Pelican Bay hunger strikers are protesting conditions in the Security Housing Unit, where inmates are kept in isolation in windowless cells that are soundproofed to discourage communication.
Unit inmates are demanding an end to long-term solitary confinement and forced interrogations about gang activity.
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Suit over Tony Awards accident moved to NY
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bret Michaels’ lawsuit over an accident at the 2009 Tony Awards that the singer claims nearly killed him should be heard in New York where the accident happened, a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled.
It makes more sense for the case — which stems from Michaels being hit in the head by a set piece after performing at Radio City Music Hall — to be handled by a federal court in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee wrote in a recent ruling.
The Poison frontman sued CBS Broadcasting and Tony organizers in March in Los Angeles, claiming the accident contributed to a brain hemorrhage that nearly killed him. His attorneys argued the case should be heard on the West Coast since Michaels lives in Los Angeles.
Gee agreed with attorneys for Tony Awards Productions that much of the potential evidence and the vast majority of witnesses — including actors and production workers on the awards show — are in New York.
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