Appeals court stays order to reinstate EMU softball
YPSILANTI (AP) — The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Eastern Michigan University’s request to stay a judge’s order that it reinstate its women’s softball program.
The decision means the school can halt the process ordered by Detroit federal Judge George Caram Steeh to hire a softball coach and begin reinstating the program until a Title IX lawsuit brought by softball players is decided.
The decision said in part that “Title IX requires equality between men’s and women’s teams, not that certain teams (say women’s softball) be reinstated rather than other sports teams be created, supported, or expanded.”
EMU has said it had offered 21 sportts when it cut women’s tennis and softball last year. It later agreed to reinstate tennis.
Judge blocks crackdown on unlicensed medical pot shops
LANSING (AP) — A judge has blocked yet another attempt by state officials to shut down unlicensed medical marijuana provisioning centers.
About 50 unlicensed shops in Michigan were set to be shut down by regulators. But Michigan Court of Claims Judge Stephen Borrello signed a temporary restraining order Thursday that prevents state regulators from enforcing a licensing deadline that had been set for Sunday.
The judge's order means that the unlicensed shops can keep their doors open for at least another two weeks.
The Bureau of Marijuana Regulation said in a statement Friday that Sunday's licensing deadline would not be enforced.
State officials have tried to impose a deadline for licensure but it's been pushed back multiple times.
Documentary reveals plea deal offered in ‘Serial’ case
BALTIMORE (AP) — Prosecutors offered a plea deal to the man whose murder conviction has been chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial” and an HBO documentary series.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the finale of HBO’s “The Case Against Adnan Syed” reveals a deal offered four months ago would have brought Syed’s release in 2022. A spokeswoman for Maryland's attorney general confirmed the offer.
Syed, who has maintained his innocence, is serving a life sentence for strangling his ex-girlfriend and burying her body in a Baltimore park in 1999. He turned down the deal, since he’d have to admit to Hae Min Lee's murder.
An appeals court ordered his conviction thrown out, but it was reinstated last month when Maryland’s highest court ruled Syed didn't deserve a new trial.
Man who stopped to feed homeless fights traffic citation
FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man is fighting a traffic citation he received while feeding a homeless man.
Morris Soard told The Kentucky Enquirer he saw the man holding a sign that said “Homeless and hungry,” so he decided to buy him a meal. Soard says he returned in his car to the man’s spot in Florence and his wife was handing food out the window when a police officer approached. Soard says he was cited for stopping on a limited access highway.
The citation says the vehicle was stopped in the right lane as traffic approached.
Soard’s attorney says he will pursue dismissal of Soard’s ticket at the April 5 trial.
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