PALS members gather for general meeting
The Polish American Legal Society (PALS) will host a general meeting on Thursday, November 20, beginning at 6 p.m., at Polish Village Café in Hamtramck.
Guest speaker will be Timothy Dinan, who is the founding attorney of Dinan & Associates PC based in Grosse Pointe Park.
Dinan focuses his practice on criminal defense and administrative law representing law students and lawyers. He also represents new attorneys in bar appeals and before the State Bar of Michigan’s Standing Committee on Character and Fitness.
For additional information about the PALS meeting, contact Anna Witkowska at .@university-bank.com.
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Civil Rights Act discussed by panel
The U.S. Attorney’s Office & The Social Justice Committee of the Federal Bar Association will present “Celebrating the Civil Rights Act of 1964”?on Wednesday, December 3 at the
Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse, 231 W. Lafayette in Detroit.
The event is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 115.
Panel members will include:
• Mark Fancher – Racial Justice Project attorney, ACLU of Michigan.
• Jocelyn Benson – dean of the Wayne State University Law School.
• Heidi Budaj – regional director, Anti-Defamation League.
• Fatina Abdrabboh – Michigan Director, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade, Eastern District of Michigan, will moderate the panel.
This is a free brown-bag event and attendees are invited to bring a lunch.
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Chicago activist seeks bond, release from jail
DETROIT (AP) — Allies of a Chicago activist convicted of illegally getting U.S. citizenship are willing to put their homes up as collateral to get her out of jail while she awaits her sentence.
Rasmieh Odeh is asking a Detroit judge to reconsider a decision that is keeping her locked up in a county jail until her next hearing in March.
Odeh, 67, runs daily operations at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, which provides services to immigrants. She was convicted last week of failing to disclose her convictions for bombings in Israel in 1969 when she applied for citizenship in Detroit in 2004.
U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain revoked her bond and ordered her to jail, saying she might flee the country. But in a court filing, Odeh’s attorney said she has no passport and is deeply tied to Chicago.
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High court asked to rule on tour-guide licensing
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A group of tour guides wants the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether city governments are restricting their free-speech rights by requiring them to be licensed and pass exams testing their knowledge of local history.
The Arlington-based Institute for Justice says it's filing two petitions arguing that the government has no business licensing tour guides. They say a ruling could have significant implications for anyone who earns a living by talking.
The institute filed the first challenge on licensing laws in Savannah, Georgia. It says it plans to file the second, to the U.S. Supreme Court, this week.
Two federal appellate courts have recently issued opposing rulings. In New Orleans, a court ruled that city was within its rights to license tour guides. In Washington, D.C., a court said similar rules there were unfounded.
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