MCBA plans ceremony for new attorneys
The Macomb County Bar Association will conduct its new lawyer admission ceremony on Monday, June 3, at 4 p.m. at the Macomb County Courthouse 4th floor courtroom, 40 N. Main in Mt. Clemens.
Participants are asked to gather in the area outside the courtroom at 3:30 p.m.
Law school graduates who passed the bar exam and wish to register for the admission ceremony should contact Tracy Stabryla at 586.468.2940 ext. 101, by email at tstabryla@macombbar.org, or visit www.macombbar.org.
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Event benefits Macomb Veterans Court
Legal Aid and Defender Association will hold a free legal aid clinic for income eligible residents who qualify for services on Friday, June 21, from 9 a.m. to noon at HOPE Center located at 33222 Groesbeck Highway in Fraser.
Those seeking assistance are asked to arrive before 10 a.m. to register as space is limited.
For more information, contact LAD’s Macomb Office at 586.465.1344.
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District judge reappointed to board
Gov. Rick Snyder has announced the reappointment of Diane D’Agostini, of Bloomfield Hills, to the Michigan Judges Retirement System Board.
Housed within the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget’s Office of Retirement Services, the five-member board oversees the Judges Retirement System Defined Benefit plan.
D’Agostini was elected to the 48th District Court in 2000, with jurisdiction over the townships of Bloomfield and West Bloomfield and the cities of Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Keego Harbor, Orchard Lake Village and Sylvan Lake.
Re-elected in 2006, she continues to serve as chief district judge by appointment of the Supreme Court. She previously worked as assistant prosecutor for Oakland County.
D’Agostini holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Wayne State University and a degree from the Michigan State University – Detroit College of Law. She will continue to represent judges who are members of the retirement system.
D’Agostini will serve a four-year term that expires March 31, 2017, and her appointment is subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
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O’Conner voices regret over Bush v. Gore
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is suggesting for the first time that the court should have stayed out of the 2000 presidential election dispute between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
The 83-year-old O’Connor tells the Chicago Tribune editorial board that perhaps she and her colleagues should have turned down the Bush campaign’s appeal of a Florida Supreme Court decision to allow a recount requested by the Gore campaign.
O’Connor was in the majority in the high court’s 5-4 decision that stopped the recount and sealed Bush’s election.
She has long lamented the controversy over the decision that she said gave the court a “less-than-perfect reputation.”
But in the past, O’Connor has said the court had no choice but to take on the case. She retired in 2006.
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