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Judge Chrzanowski, 34, and Michael Fletcher, 31, started working together in 1997, when Fletcher, fresh from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, was her clerk in Michigan's 37th District Court, in Warren. After Fletcher passed the bar exam, Chrzanowski, by now his lover, helped jump-start his practice by naming him the court-appointed attorney for 56 indigent defendants, giving him three times as much in fees as the court's three other judges gave him combined. What's more, she ruled on those cases without revealing to the opposing counsel her relationship with Fletcher...
...into a courtroom," said JTC executive director Paul Fischer. "How can it be fair when the judge is sleeping with one of the attorneys?" Said New York University legal ethicist Stephen Gillers: "There's no way of soft-pedaling Chrzanowski's conduct, no way of defending it.'' Wrote the Detroit Free Press: "There's surely something wrong with a system that can't hold [Chrzanowski] accountable." The judge's supporters are few. In her own defense, Chrzanowski released a statement to TIME last week in which she claimed to be a victim of "media hype...
...markets are deteriorating, and our company's performance even more so. Competition is brutal," Dieter Zetsche, Chrysler's new president, said at a news conference Monday in Detroit. "North American manufacturers are under pressure from imports and an incentive...
...Central--Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota...
...form of a well-reasoned decision issued last month in federal court. The University of Michigan's affirmative action program, which has come under fire for a point-based admissions process that explicitly benefits racial minorities, was upheld by Judge Patrick J. Duggan of the Federal District Court in Detroit. In his opinion, Duggan rightly ruled that the government has a compelling interest to support the educational benefits that stem from a diverse student body...