An employee who sued and recovered the long-term disability benefits that were wrongly denied him, plus attorney’s fees and interest, was not also entitled to equitable relief for breach of fiduciary duty, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in an en banc decision.
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No ‘duplicative’ relief for employee wrongly denied disability benefits
Justices divide on lawyers’ right to ‘fees on fees’
With millions of dollars at stake in this case alone, Supreme Court justices appeared divided on whether lawyers for companies in bankruptcy proceedings are entitled to compensation for defending the fees they request or have already been awarded.
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Plaintiff gave city adequate notice of sidewalk trip-and-fall
A plaintiff who tripped and fell on a city-owned sidewalk gave sufficient notice of her personal injury lawsuit against the city, the Michigan Court of Appeals has decided.
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Attorney: Stepfather of murdered EMU student should not be 'person of interest'
The stepfather of Julia Niswender remains in jail on child pornography charges.Jim Turnquist has been named as a person of interest in the police’s investigation. His attorney is speaking out and questions the timing of the arrest.
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Does legally carrying a gun in a school disrupt the educational process?
That is the question that will likely be at the center of a lawsuit filed against the Clio Area School District by the father of an elementary school student who claims he was barred from picking up his daughter from class while wearing his pistol holstered on his hip.
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New Task Force to Tackle Challenges of 21st Century Legal Practice
State Bar of Michigan President Thomas C. Rombach has appointed distinguished legal leaders to a new 21st Century Practice Task Force to recommend how the State Bar can best support lawyers’ professional development in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. The task force will also look at the potential for modernizing Michigan’s attorney regulation in response to those changes. SBM Past Presidents Julie Fershtman, of Farmington Hills, and Bruce Courtade, of Grand Rapids, will co-chair the task force. Some of the other members of the task force include three other past presidents of the State Bar, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Mary…
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Obituary: Richard L. Roberge, 87
He was an attorney in private practice and also served as a Macomb County assistant prosecuting attorney.
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Bar dues payment snag immediately stops trial
Imagine being in the middle of a trial and finding out, to your surprise, that your law license has been suspended because you did not pay your State Bar of Michigan membership dues. This is exactly what happened to a Kentwood attorney.
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Nurse who survived Ebola says hospital failed her
Nina Pham, 26, is preparing to file a lawsuit Monday in Dallas County against Texas Health Resources. She said she continues to suffer from body aches and insomnia after contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
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Attorney disbarred, review pending
A Troy attorney who failed to hold client or third-party funds separate from his own property has been disbarred.
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