The U.S. Department of Treasury announced yesterday that its Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on Turkey's Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and its Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu. They are leaders of Turkish government organizations responsible for the arrest and...
Month: August 2018
Challenge To Settlement In Mosque Zoning Case Is Dismissed
In Youkhanna v. City of Sterling Heights, (ED MI, Aug. 1, 2018), a Michigan federal district court dismissed a lawsuit challenging a consent decree approved by the Sterling Heights City Council growing out of a dispute over zoning approval for a mosque. (See prior posting.) The consent decree...
Gym’s Failure To Disclose Transgender Policy Violates Michigan Consumer Protection Law
In Cormier v. PF Fitness-Midland, LLC, (MI App., July 26, 2018), a Michigan appellate court in a case on remand from the Michigan Supreme Court held that the gym Planet Fitness violated provisions of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act when it failed to inform plaintiff that it had a policy of...
Experience Armageddon in Sneak Peek at ‘xkcd’ Author’s New Book
Let's all just be glad that Earth keeps rotating. In his new book, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Situations, xkcd author Randall Munroe illustrates some of life's most bizarre questions and conundrums. Munroe recently joined Mashable's social book club MashableReads...
UCSB Is One Of Four New Schools Accused Of Mishandling Rape Cases
New federal complaints were filed Wednesday against University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Michigan, University of Toledo, and Valparaiso University Law School in Indiana. BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { if (BF_STATIC.bf_test_mode) localStorage.setItem('posted_date',...
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