Michigan Commerce Bank v. City of Norton Shores
Jan 22, 2015OUTCOME: Mission Accomplished
Here is the coverage in the Muskegon Chronicle: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2015/01/muskegon_county_judge_orders_c.html
Eric C. Grimm's Legal Cases (10)
Houston, TX
Business Lawyer at Houston, TX
Practice Areas: Business, Intellectual Property ... +5 more
Fruitland Township v. White Lake Ambulance Authority
Nov 13, 2013OUTCOME: Case dismssed voluntarily by agreement; no service interruption occurred at any time due to lawsuit.
White Lake Ambulance Authority serves several municipalities across the northern part of Muskegon County. Although everyone has acknowledged that there were no known problems with delivery of emergenc ... y medical services, one of the participating communities (Fruitland) brought suit against the WLAA and all its other member municipalities (as well as elected officials from each of them) seeking to dissolve the WLAA and to halt all expenditures (and, hence, all delivery of emergency services) immediately. The case later was resolved voluntarily, through such innocuous measures as, when meetings always had been run by Robert's Rules of Order, formally adopting a written resolution stating that these were the official rules governing WLAA Board meetings. Suffice it to say, the WLAA remains in operation and continues to provide excellent emergency medical services to its designated service communities.
AF Holdings v. Ciccone
Mar 25, 2013OUTCOME: Case voluntarily dismissed, without any of the identities of 300 cable subscribers being revealed.
Although I represent a fair number of cable subscribers who are accused (usually wrongly accused) of copyright piracy, I rarely have found it necessary to file papers in court, or to charge clients for ... the work that court filings require. The Ciccone case in Detroit, involved a novel strategy by the notorious copyright troll John Steele and Prenda Law, to attempt to secure the identities of 300 "shakedown" targets, by giving subscriber Ciccone a break on his settlement price, in exchange for throwing 300 other subscribers under the litigation bus. A handful of the subscribers who found themselves under the bus, were willing to have me file court papers pointing out the problems with what Steele and Prenda were attempting. Essentially, my filing was the first filing by anyone in the case, to ask the judge to put on the brakes before the bus drove over all 300 subscribers who had been thrown under it by Ciccone. The judge did put on the brakes, and about a month later, everyone was let out from under the bus (before anyone had their identities revealed), when Steele and Prenda law finally relented and dismissed the whole case voluntarily. For the 295 subscribers who received the benefit of this strategy, while free-riding on the investment of time and effort to prepare the court papers, it was a pleasure to help you, too.
Swann v. County of Muskegon
Feb 19, 2013OUTCOME: The employer prevailed, and the administrative law judge issued a strong opinion condemning the deputy's misconduct in office.
This was a case before an administrative law judge, involving a claim for unemployment benefits by a former jail deputy who was fired for misconduct. The deputy had previously pleaded guilty to some o ... f the criminal charges against him, but had not taken the stand to testify. This was the first time that the former deputy took the stand and was subjected to cross-examination.
Muskegon Charter Township v. Greater Michigan Compassion Club
Oct 21, 2011OUTCOME: A TRO and an injunction were granted by the Muskegon County Circuit Court, and the Compassion Club moved its operations out of the Township's jurisdiciton.
When a business opens in your neighborhood, whether it be a bank, an auto repair shop, a pharmacy, or a restaurant, it only stands to reason that it matters how they are running their operations -- whe ... ther they have reliable and safe, professional processes in place or whether they are operating by the seat of the pants. For instance, it matters if they follow the fire code, for customer and employee safety. It matters if they carry liability insurance in case someone is injured. It matters if they carry workers compensation insurance for their staff (especially if some staff carry loaded firearms). If they claim to be collecting sales tax, it matters how their accounting systems work, and whether they are actually making timely returns with the State of Michigan. The Greater Michigan Compassion Club opened a retail "marketplace" for marijuana and other Cannabis-containing products, in Muskegon Township. Among other things, this location included a basement "hangout room" without adequate means of egress, where patrons or management were maintaining open flames. Although I personally voted for Michigan's medical marijuana statute, the law as passed always has been pretty clear on its face about certain things that are, or are not, permitted (as the Michigan Supreme Court recently reaffirmed). Correctly recognizing that the statute does not allow for such a marketplace, and also correctly observing that serious fire hazards existed, among other commonsense concerns, the Township sued the Compassion Club and sought an injunction against continued violations of law.
Chicago Area Council, Inc., Boy Scouts of America v. Blue Lake Township
Mar 18, 2010OUTCOME: Owasippe has been saved.
The Owasippe Scout Reservation, located in Blue Lake Township, is a precious natural resource to be protected. The Chicago Area Council, BSA, proposed to have most of the land at Owasippe rezoned for ... residential development. The Township elected to maintain the "Forrest / Recreational -- Instiitutional" zoning of the land. This decision drew a lawsuit from the Chicago Area Council, alleging violations of the U.S. and Michigan Constitutions. A bench trial resulted in a ruling in the Township's favor. I wrote the winning brief, and made the winning argument, to defend on appeal the judgment that was favorable to the Township.
Drew Technologies, Inc. v. Society of Automotive Engineers
Mar 20, 2005OUTCOME: Settlement favorable to Drew Technologies, involving no licensing royalties to the SAE.
Computers are critical engine components in most motor vehicles today. An Ann Arbor, Michigan, company, Drew Technologies, helped develop and release under the GNU General Public License, software to ... enable automobile owners to communicate with the diagnostic computers on their automobiles. The SAE insisted that it had the right to charge licensing royalties for the use of this key information. Drew Tech made the choice to defend the GPL, and the rights of end-users, in court. http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050225223848129
Spacey v. Burgar
May 16, 2002OUTCOME: Kevin Spacey lost and the case was dismissed.
A Canadian fan of the actor Kevin Spacey published a fan website using the address KevinSpacey.com, which displeased the actor. So the actor attempted to sue about it in Los Angeles federal court. Th ... e dispute was about the issue of whether U.S. federal courts had personal jurisdiction to entertain a lawsuit against the Canadian defendant.
Ford Motor Company v. 2600 Enterprises
Dec 20, 2001OUTCOME: Ford lost.
Link: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/12/23/1342231/ford-vs-2600-judge-upholds-right-to-link The magazine 2600 The Hacker Quarterly, as an "Internet joke," pointed an Internet domain name making n ... egative reference to General Motors, to the Ford Motor Company homepage. Ford, not appreciating the "joke," sued. I defended 2600 and its publisher against the lawsuit.
Ford Motor Co. v. Greatdomains.Com, Inc., 177 F. Supp. 2d 656, 61 U.S.P.Q.2d 1718 (E.D. Mich. 2001)
Jan 01, 2001OUTCOME: Resolved favorably to several clients who had been sued by Ford.
Pro bono case as cooperating counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that ultimately resulted in saving the Website < classicvolvo.com >. The site owner, Hans Rekestad, had his story featured ... in the Wall Street Journal at one point, and at the conclusion of the case said, "“We owe our total existence to Eric Grimm & Co. at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Eric has put in a LOT of work in order to solve our legal battle with Fo[rd] Mo[tor] Co[mpany].”
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