Federal judge, 95, trims his caseload
DETROIT (AP) — A 95-year-old Detroit federal judge is reducing is caseload after 40 years on the bench.
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn, Eastern District of Michigan, is dropping criminal cases and will handle only civil lawsuits.
“Judge Cohn is in his mid-90s and has been carrying a full caseload for all these years,” court spokesman David Ashenfelter said. “He has decided that it’s time to cut back.”
Cohn was appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. He qualified for “senior status” in 1999, which can trigger a smaller caseload and give the court an opportunity to get an additional judge. But Cohn didn’t change his duties.
Nonprofits awarded grants for worker safety, health training
LANSING (AP) — State safety regulators say grants worth $870,000 are being awarded to 20 nonprofit groups.
The grants are awarded each year for the development of safety and health training, specifically to help support small and medium-sized business.
The grant program provides options for safety and health education and training to employers and employees. During the 2019 fiscal year grant period, more than 20,000 employees attended training sessions funded by MIOSHA training grants.
Organizations receiving grants include the Center for Workplace Violence Prevention, the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, and Parents for Student Safety Employment Standards.
Supreme Court declines to review city’s pension case
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the case of a Rhode Island city’s decision to suspend pension adjustments to retired firefighters and police officers.
The high court denied the petition filed by the Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee last week, the Providence Journal reported.
Cranston had previously suspended the pension adjustments for 10 years after citing the city’s finances and litigation by police and firefighter unions. The city responded to the legal pressure by dialing back the suspension of payments to alternating years.
The shift did not alleviate the issues, and a group of 72 retirees pressed the matter further in Superior Court and then in Rhode Island Supreme Court in June.
Mayor Allan Fung said the pensions are currently funded at 23 percent, a rise from the 16.9 percent in 2012.
“This gives people in other communities a little pathway to hopefully follow when they are facing similarly dire circumstances financially and a looming pension problem,” Fung said.
Pranksters charged after home, cars covered in cheese slices
GIRARD, Pa. (AP) — A man and two teenage boys who allegedly covered two cars and a home with cheese slices are facing disorderly conduct charges.
Pennsylvania State Police say the prank occurred in Girard early Saturday. But it’s not clear what motivated it.
The names of the three suspects — a 17-year-old Girard boy and two Lake City residents, ages 17 and 18 — have not been released. Authorities say they admitted their involvement in the prank.
It’s not clear if anyone was in the home at the time of the incident.
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