Restaurant owner who was in jail says rights were violated
April 13, 2021
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HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) A western Michigan restaurant owner who spent four nights in jail for violating coronavirus-related orders is firing back weeks later with a demand that $15,000 in fines be refunded and contempt findings dropped.
An attorney for Marlena Pavlos-Hackney said her rights were violated during a contentious court hearing on March 19. Court filings show that she doesn t consider the case closed.
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina changed the Ingham County courtroom “to Burger King the judge had it her way,” attorney Robert Baker said in a court filing Friday.
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State supreme court justice confirms he has been working from outside the country for 3 months
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein. Photo from the Michigan Judiciary.
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein has been working from Dubai and Israel for the last three months while he participates in a program to improve cultural understanding of people with disabilities.
Bernstein, who is blind, said he is working full time as a justice, connecting remotely to arguments, while working with a program that is part of the Abraham Accords, signed by Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
The Michigan Supreme Court has been having remote hearings because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Michigan voters overwhelmingly passed Proposal 2 in 2018, which called for a Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC). This opened the process that previously took place behind closed doors and was heavily influenced by the political party in power.
A transparent redistricting process in Michigan gives voters, instead of politicians, the power to choose who represents them in the redistricting of legislative/congressional maps. Redistricting, which is done every 10 years and follows the taking of the census, was inherently political. When politicians are given the power to draw the lines, they often manipulate them to keep their party in power. This independent process gives Michigan citizens the power to draw the state’s new legislative districts based on census data, federal law and prioritized criteria as stated in the Michigan Constitution.
Court official: Bernstein s working from Middle East hasn t hurt Supreme Court
An official overseeing Michigan courts said there s nothing different between a Michigan Supreme Court justice working from the Middle East or working within the state during a pandemic closure of courtrooms.
State Court Administrator Tom Boyd said Friday that Justice Richard Bernstein has been able to do handle his full workload while juggling a disability advocacy role for three months in the Middle East first in Dubai and now in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Michigan Supreme Court have been under a remote work policy since early in the pandemic, requiring justices and staff to work from outside the Lansing courthouse, Boyd said.