Detroit Adult Entertainment: Warren Yeakey, Former Crane Operator, Fails to Get his Defamation Suit Against …
July 7, 2010 at 9:36 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… The Seattle Post-Intelligencer may no longer exist as a paper, but its stories live on in many ways–including in court, where owner Hearst Communications has been battling a defamation suit over a package of stories the paper ran about a disastrous Bellevue construction accident (see above) and a crane operator named Warren Yeakey. On this matter, the company got a reprieve today as the state Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s opinion and quashed the suit.
At issue was the paper’s coverage of a large crane that collapsed atop a Bellevue condo building in November of 2006, killing a 31-year-old Microsoft attorney who was inside. “Operator in crane wreck has history of drug abuse,” the P-I announced in a headline to one story, which delved into the criminal history of Yeakey. That history, according to the story, included “at least six drug convictions,” as well as convictions for domestic violence and soliciting a prostitute.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Lawyers To Meet In Tamara Green Case
July 7, 2010 at 9:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLawyers who represent Greene’s family are seeking to get depositions from imprisoned former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his wife, Carlita, his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, and his former chief of staff Christine Beatty.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen has given attorneys a July 30 deadline for taking sworn statements in the case. The judge has indicated he has no plans to extend that deadline.
The meeting of the lawyers was scheduled after the Greene family attorney filed paperwork accusing defense lawyers of delaying the depositions.
Tamara Greene was shot to death on a Detroit street in April of 2003. Her killing has not been solved.
Greene, who worked as a stripper under the name of Strawberry, was alleged to have danced at a party at the Manoogian mansion in 2002.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Judge orders meeting in Tamara Greene case
July 7, 2010 at 3:12 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDetroit — A federal judge has ordered attorneys in the Tamara “Strawberry” Greene case to meet at the courthouse Monday to hash out a schedule for taking the remaining depositions in the case.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen said he has no plans to extend a July 30 deadline for taking sworn statements from witnesses in the civil lawsuit.
“Although counsel may find it difficult to conclude their discovery efforts before the looming deadline, it is their obligation to do so, and the court has no intention of relieving them of this obligation,” Rosen said in a four-page order issued today.
Greene, an exotic dancer linked to a rumored stripper party at the mayor’s Manoogian Mansion in the fall of 2002, was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. Her family is suing the city of Detroit and former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, alleging they obstructed the investigation of her still unsolved murder. The defendants deny the allegations.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Detroit Teens Plant Seeds of Change
July 7, 2010 at 6:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThe planting project isn’t quite as simple as laying down a few seeds, though. The plot resides on a piece of land that used to be a playground. Having been abandoned and neglected, it is now gang territory and also rampant with prostitution.
Given its dire situation, others in Detroit don’t understand why buildOn volunteers are trying to improve the space. ”We definitely encounter people, even with this project and other times with buildOn saying, ‘Oh that’s impossible! You can’t do that; you should just leave it alone. Why waste your time?’” said Price.
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BuildOn founder Jim Ziolkowski believes the garden is the beginning of a bigger movement of change in the area. “The rest of the neighborhood sees what’s going on, it sees how the youth is stepping up and leading this change,” he said. “They take a stake in this garden and then the gangs move out, and then the prostitution moves out.”
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