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 Attorney general Schuette wants juvenile lifers to stay behind bars 

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general is pledging to challenge court rulings that could lead to parole for prisoners convicted of murders committed when they were under 18.

Bill Schuette says he will appeal the decisions of Ann Arbor federal Judge John Corbett O’Meara, who has ordered the state to start the parole review process for more than 300 inmates.
The judge says the prisoners deserve to benefit from a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down mandatory no-parole sentences for teens. Schuette says the decision shouldn’t apply retroactively.
O’Meara last week set a Jan. 31 deadline for the state to give him an update. Schuette says the judge has exceeded his authority.
 

Federal Bar Association awards Wayne Law student scholarship

 
Wayne State University Law School third-year student Alex Szypa has been awarded the Edward H. Rakow Scholarship Award by the Federal Bar Association.
 
The $1,500 award is given each fall to one student at each of Michigan’s five law schools. Winning students must demonstrate outstanding scholarly achievement in securities, operations or business law, as determined by the dean of the law school. The scholarships were presented at the association’s Rakow luncheon Nov. 19.

Szypa grew up in Warren and Sterling Heights and now lives in Birmingham. He works as an intellectual property law clerk at Carlson Gaskey & Olds in Birmingham.

“I chose Wayne Law because I wanted to go into intellectual property law,” he said, noting the school’s highly regarded curriculum in the field. Wayne Law has the only patent procurement clinic in Michigan that is sanctioned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Szypa holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and is registered to practice as a patent agent before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He also is associate editor of The Wayne Law Review.
 

Update on U.S. Supreme Court 

 
Professor Alan Gershel of the University of Michigan Law School will analyze the recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court. The seminar will begin at 12:45 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, in the 13th floor auditorium of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. For additional information, contact Michael Rubin at michael.rubin@3rdcc.org.

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