Dearborn, MI
Criminal defense Lawyer at Dearborn, MI
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Civil Rights, State, Local And Municipal Law
OUTCOME: Case Dismissed
Court of Appeals reversed Wayne County Third Circuit Court and 36th District Court and dismissed case. Defendant was never identified as the person who supposedly committed crime. Further, there was n ... o evidence that Defendant possessed a cell phone in the jail.
OUTCOME: Denial of Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment
First Amendment retaliation case against Monroe County Sheriff Deputy Quinn who wrote obstructed rear view window ticket to Plaintiff Hazel for Ron Paul for President sign in automobile. Judge Lawson, ... Eastern District of Michigan (federal district court), found that Defendant's motion for summary judgment was not appropriate as a matter of law as Plaintiff's evidence made the case a jury question. Holding that a civil infraction citation or lawsuit is an adverse action, which could chill the speech of citizen of ordinary firmness from engaging in the speech. Holding that a causal connection, between protected conduct (display of political sign) and adverse action existed, could be inferred where extreme temporal proximity existed (closeness in time between speech and adverse action) and that other evidence of retaliatory intent existed, which could allow the jury to make a determination that the action was politically motivated. Opinion http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-mied-2_11-cv-12165/pdf/USCOURTS-mied-2_11-cv-12165-1.pdf
OUTCOME: Vacated and Remanded
Representing Mary Ann Lamkin on appeal from Livingston County Circuit Court denial of reconsideration of an order dismissing petitions for Personal Protection Orders without a hearing or interview. Pu ... blished opinion from Michigan Court of Appeals: http://coa.courts.mi.gov/documents/opinions/final/coa/20120315_c303008_27_303008.opn.pdf
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