FBA schedules State of the Court for Oct. 23
The Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, will kick off its annual luncheon programs on Friday, Oct. 23, at the Atheneum International Banquet Center in Detroit
Featured speaker will be U.S. District Court Chief Judge Denise Page Hood, Eastern District of Michigan, with the annual “State of the Court” address.
Social gathering and networking opportunity begins at 11:30 with the luncheon at noon.
Tickets are available at $45 for FBA members, $60 for guests and non-members.
Registration can be completed online at https://fbamich.org.
Law firm sponsorship opportunities are available for the opening luncheon and the three additional luncheons in the program which will be held in the coming months.
For additional information about the luncheon or the luncheon series, contact Mindy Herrmann, chapter executive officer, at 248.231.7887 or by email to fbamich@fbamich.org.
Man to stand trial in fatal dog mauling of nine-year-old girl
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit man will stand trial in the fatal dog mauling of a nine-year-old girl.
Prosecutors say 33-year-old Pierre Cleveland was bound over last week to Wayne County Circuit Court on second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and having a dangerous animal causing death charges.
His arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 16.
Emma Hernandez was attacked in August by three dogs while riding her bike in an alley near her home in southwest Detroit.
One of the dogs was shot by a bystander. The other dogs were captured.
Police said neighbors threw bricks at the dogs to try to stop the attack.
Cleveland owned the pit bulls or pit bull mixed dogs that got free from his yard.
Man sues clinic over donated sperm used for 17 children
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who says his donated sperm was used to father at least 17 children in violation of an agreement that allowed for no more than five has sued an Oregon fertility clinic.
Dr. Bryce Cleary believes it’s possible that he has many more children from his sperm donations 30 years ago, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
The lawsuit says Cleary donated his sperm when he was a first-year medical student at Oregon Health & Science University in 1989 after the hospital’s fertility clinic solicited him and other classmates.
In March 2018, his lawsuit says he began to learn that his sperm donations successfully resulted in the births of some children after two young women, born through the fertility clinic process, contacted him.
The suit says the young women told him they used Ancestry.com data as well as “specific and substantive information” given to them by the fertility clinic to identify more siblings and Cleary himself.
Cleary then sent his own DNA to Ancestry.com, discovering that he had at least 17 offspring born through his sperm donations.
Cleary is “profoundly distressed” as he wades through the “moral, legal, ethical, and personal obligations” he now feels toward those 17 children, the lawsuit said.
He is seeking $5.25 million.
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