Appeals court judge featured in online Juneteenth program
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School will present “Juneteenth: Promises Made, Promises Delayed, Promises Kept?” online Tuesday, June 15, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via WebEx.
The online program will feature keynote speaker Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Cynthia Stephens.
Prior to her appellate court appointment in 2008, Stephens served as a general jurisdiction trial judge for 23 years.
She served 16 years as a commissioner of the State Bar, chairing its Justice Initiatives Committee, Communications Committee and Children’s Task Force.
Stephens is former chair of the Association of Black Judges of Michigan and a former member of the Executive Board of the National Bar Association and its Judicial Council.
To register for the online program, visit www.cooley.edu/events.
FBA annual meeting scheduled for June 16
The Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, will host its 2021 Annual Chapter Meeting online Wednesday, June 16, from noon to 12:30 p.m. via Zoom.
At the meeting, the 021-2022 Chapter Officer Slate and Executive Board will be voted on along with the 2021 amendment to the chapters bylaws. The FBA will also present the Cook-Friedman Civility Award to this year's honoree Kathleen Bogas.
FBA members can attend the meeting for free and non-members can attend for $20. Registration is required to attend. To register online, visit www.fbamich.org and click on “events.”
Collision on Aisle 5: Jury to decide grocery crash
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A jury must decide whether a grocery store should be held liable for a collision between a vendor’s snack food cart and a shopper riding an electric scooter, a judge ruled recently.
Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden refused to grant summary judgment in favor of Acme Markets Inc. in a lawsuit stemming from the 2016 accident.
Court records indicate that Theodore Heine was using an electric shopping cart scooter at an Acme store while an employee of a company called J B Inc. was pushing a large cart of Tastykake snack cakes to be stocked on the shelves.
The scooter and cart collided, prompting Heine to sue Acme and J B Inc., along with Pennsylvania-based Tasty Baking Oxford Inc. and its parent company, Georgia-based Flowers Foods.
Acme argued that it should be dismissed as a defendant because it does not tell J B employees how to stock shelves and has no duty to oversee their activities.
Heine’s attorney argued that Acme has a duty to protect its shoppers and that a jury should decide whether it was negligent.
Based on a previous state Supreme Court ruling, Jurden said a jury must decide whether Acme was acting as a “reasonably prudent shopkeeper” when it failed to prevent the Tastykake collision.
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