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"Mayor Kilpatrick takes case to Michigan Supreme Court; City says legal principle, not politics, is at stake"

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"Mayor Kilpatrick takes case to Michigan Supreme Court; City says legal principle, not politics, is at stake": Yesterday's edition of The Detroit Free Press contained an article that begins, "Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took his text message scandal to the Michigan Supreme Court on Friday, urging justices to strike down decisions from two lower courts to provide the public with secret documents he used to settle police whistle-blower lawsuits last year for $8.4 million. The city filed the appeal under seal, but city law director John E. Johnson Jr. said in a statement the city asked the high court to consider the same arguments that were rejected Wednesday by the Michigan Court of Appeals and on Feb. 5 by Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Colombo Jr., in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Free Press."

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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