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Richard Bernstein, a justice on Michigan s state Supreme Court, has been living in Dubai since he got stuck there en route to Israel in January 2021. (Asma Ali Zain/JTA)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (JTA) On a weekday afternoon, if you walk down the Palm Jumeirah Boardwalk, a promenade overlooking the Arabian Gulf that encircles this capital city’s famous palm-shaped artificial island, you may encounter a man repeating legal texts line by line to himself for hour after hour.
That man is Richard Bernstein, 46, a judge serving on the Michigan Supreme Court. He’s been living in Dubai for two months and counting. And the texts he’s reciting memorizing in some instances are court filings from the week’s cases.