Court rules EMs control vacancies on school boards
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan appeals court says emergency managers running school districts have the power to fill vacancies on a school board.
The court ruled Wednesday in the case of Jonathan Kinloch, who was appointed to the Detroit school board in 2013 by emergency manager Roy Roberts.
Kinloch got the cold shoulder at his first meeting when other board members refused to acknowledge him. The board had picked its own new member.
But the appeals court says a school board can’t disregard the appointments of an emergency manager during a financial emergency. Kinloch is no longer on the board, and the Detroit district now is run by emergency manager Darnell Earley.
2 convicted in torture, murder of 2 teens sentenced to life
DETROIT (AP) — Two men convicted in the 2012 slayings of two suburban Detroit teens who authorities say went into the city to buy drugs have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Twenty-six-year-old Fredrick Young and 24-year-old and Felando Hunter were arrested last year. They were convicted in December of first-degree murder, torture and armed robbery in the deaths of 17-year-old Jourdan Bobbish and 18-year-old Jacob Kudla of Westland.
Young and Hunter received the mandatory terms for the murder convictions on Wednesday in Detroit.
The teens were missing for five days before their bodies were found in a trash-strewn field overgrown by weeds near Detroit’s city airport, not far from the drug house where they were forced into a car’s trunk in July 2012. They’d been shot in the head.
FBA to present ‘E-Discovery Model Order Seminar’ Feb. 10
The Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, will present an “E-Discovery Model Order Seminar” on Tuesday, Feb. 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in Room 115 of the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit.
Join FBA members for a fast paced update on the cutting edge of e-discovery practice and procedure, including how to efficiently handle e-discovery in litigation; how to avoid sanctions, spoliation, adverse inferences or dismissal; and a panel presentation by judicial officers who crafted the Eastern District of Michigan’s recently approved “Model Order Relating to the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information” and “Checklist for Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer Regarding ESI.” Cost, which includes lunch, is $25 for FBA members and $35 for non-members.
For additional information or to register online, visit www.fbamich.org and click on “events.”
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