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I hope the pen is mightier than the sword, because my skills lie in writing and editing. I would be pretty useless with a sword.
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The precise issue in the case was whether a prisoner whose religious rights were violated could sue the individual prison official who violated their rights or whether their only lawsuit could run against the state itself. The court had already said you can’t sue the state for damages, because the state has sovereign immunity against damages. So the only way that an individual could get effective relief would be to sue the individual prison official who violated their rights.
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By Allison Torres Burtka Michigan Law The Michigan Court of Appeals recently reversed the trial court’s judgment in a felony murder case, agreeing with the defense on two issues that Criminal Appellate Practice (CAP) Clinic student-attorneys had briefed. Now the defendant will get a new trial. Meg Beyer, ’24, and Alexandra (“Al”) Hargrave, ’25, pinpointed these issues when they were a 3L and 2L, respectively, in the 2024 winter semester.
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By Allison Torres Burtka Michigan Law John Ursu, ’02, has always been a storyteller. It started when he was a kid, and he and his sister would perform puppet shows. His parents recalled that squeals of laughter were all they could hear. “They could not discern any of the actual words in the story because we were just cracking each other up so much. That’s sort of my foundational moment,” he said.
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