Flint attorney asks judge to clarify comments that questioned his professional conduct
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 17, 2021
Attorney Loyst Fletcher adresses about 250 people who gathered to discuss last week s CSX tanker explosion and leak. 3rd Ward Flint City Council representative Johnnie Coleman (left) attended as well. Photo in Flint on Wednesday, January 26, 2000. THE FLINT JOURNALTHE FLINT JOURNAL
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FLINT, MI A Flint attorney is asking a federal court judge to make it clear he did not violate any rule of professional conduct and never intended to mislead anyone involved in the Flint water crisis settlement.
Attorneys for Flint lawyer Loyst Fletcher filed a motion in U.S. District Court on March 15, asking Judge Judith Levy to modify her previous orders tied to Fletcher’s mailings to potential clients in the $641-million proposed Flint water settlement, correspondence Levy has previously said contained “misleading and incorrect” information.
In a 62-page response to a motion for sanctions, attorneys connected with Sidney Powell's so-called Michigan "Kraken" lawsuit railed against state and local authorities for asking a judge to issue sanctions against Powell and her team. The motion calls the request for sanctions "a new form of political retribution."
Editorâs note: This column was coauthored by GianCarlo Canaparo.
âSo⦠you represented Trump?â That question is unfairly haunting a number of the former presidentâs lawyers.
Because of his legal counsel to former President Donald Trump, constitutional scholar and law professor John Eastman â the former dean of the law school no less â was pushed out of Chapman University, where he spent his entire, very distinguished academic career.
The same thing happened to Cleta Mitchell, a well-known and highly respected Washington, D.C. lawyer who had practiced with Foley and Lardner for decades.
Now, Michigan lawyers Greg Rohl, Scott Hagerstrom, and Stefanie Junttila, who represented the Trump campaign in election litigation in the state, are being unfairly and unjustly targeted for disbarment by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state Attorney General Dana Nessel.
State Representative Pauline Wendzel has received her committee assignments for the new legislative session. Her office has released the following:
State Rep. Pauline Wendzel has been named to four committees for her second term in the Michigan House of Representatives. Rep. Wendzel will serve on the powerful new Michigan Rules and Competitiveness Committee and retain her position on the Regulatory Reform Committee. Rep. Wendzel will also serve on the Commerce and Tourism Committee and serve as the Vice-Chair of the Elections and Ethics Committee.
“I’m excited to serve in this new capacity,” Rep. Wendzel said. “As a member of the Rules and Competitiveness Committee, I look forward to working on a variety of topics and helping turn policy ideas into final products that can be signed into law. The people of our state elected us to govern, not fight, and I’m committed to doing just that – developing and advancing sound policy initiatives this legislative term and movin