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MAJ offers annual trial advocacy seminar online

The Michigan Association for Justice will present its “Annual Trial Advocacy Seminar” online Friday, May 7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. via Zoom.

The seminar will delve into such topics as:

  • Maximizing Damages in Wrongful Death Cases.
  • Rethinking Your Damages Paradigm to Maximize Results.
  • Costliest Mistakes Plaintiff Lawyers Make—Lesson From 10 Years Trying Cases on the Defense Side.
  • Thinking Out of the Box- Demonstrative Evidence and Trial Strategies that Can Add Millions to Your Case.

Cost for the seminar is $215 for MAJ members, $105 for MAJ members practicing three years or less, $105 for MAJ sustaining members, $100 for MAJ student & paralegal members, and $425 for non-members. Sitting judges can attend for free.

Registration can be completed by visiting www.michiganjustice.org and clicking on “events.”


‘What is Social Justice?’ explored online

Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Community Conversation Series will continue online with “What is Social Justice?” on Wednesday, May 19, beginning at 5 p.m.

WMU-Cooley’s Federal Bar Association collaborates with WMU-Cooley to hear D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine talk on social justice and the way forward.

Racine draws on more than 25 years of legal and leadership experience.

Over the course of his career, he has worked at the D.C. Public Defender Service and served as associate White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.

Visit https://info.cooley.edu/community-conversations to register.


Judge nixes challenge to masks, virus tests for teen athletes

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has rejected a request to stop coronavirus testing of Michigan school athletes and other steps ordered by the state health department.

An injunction isn't appropriate at this stage because a group called Let Them Play Michigan and its allies are unlikely to win the case, ruled Judge Michael Kelly of the Court of Claims.

The group argued that health department orders, especially quarantines and weekly virus testing for athletes ages 13 to 19, should have gone through a formal rule-making process.

But Kelly said Wednesday state law “plainly gives” authority to the health director to issue emergency orders in response to a pandemic.

Spring lacrosse and soccer players must wear masks at all times. Athletes in baseball, golf, softball, tennis and track must wear a mask when on the sideline but not when actively competing, according to the Michigan High School Athletic Association.

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