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This prosecutor could get disbarred for refusing to protect LGBTQ domestic violence victims
He said he won’t prosecute domestic assault in same-sex couples. It could cost him his job – and his license to practice law.
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Michigan high court won’t hear appeal from fired state lawyer who bullied gay student
The Michigan Supreme Court won’t get involved in the case of a state lawyer who was fired after hounding a gay student leader at the University of Michigan.
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High court won’t hear appeal in anti-gay defamation lawsuit
Andrew Shirvell was fired as assistant attorney general in 2010 for waging an anti-gay campaign against former student government president Chris Armstrong.
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Appeals court rules against ex-Michigan state attorney in anti-gay defamation suit
An appeals court says a fired lawyer for the state of Michigan should not be granted a new trial in a defamation suit filed by a gay former University of Michigan student government president.
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Court: State lawyer’s ‘bullying’ of gay student not protected by 1st Amendment
The court said attorney general’s office was justified in firing Andrew Shirvell in 2010 because his posts on Facebook and an anti-gay blog, as well as his campus visits and TV appearances, had an adverse impact on the agency’s credibility.
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Former prosecutor wants job back after being fired for harassing gay student
DETROIT — A former assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan who was fired after expressing hostility toward a gay University of Michigan student government president has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the state’s current attorney general and his predecessor.
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Former prosecutor ordered to pay $4.5 million for defaming gay student
DETROIT — Former state assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell was ordered to pay $4.5 million in damages after a federal jury on Thursday ruled that his blog — “Chris Armstrong Watch” — which attacked the former University of Michigan’s openly gay student body president, was in fact defamation.
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Fired prosecutor to face jury in alleged harassment of gay student leader
DETROIT — Jury selection began Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit in a civil lawsuit against a former Assistant Attorney General of Michigan, who stands accused of stalking and defaming a gay former student government leader at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Judge tosses out lawsuit against former University of Michigan student president
DETROIT — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the former University of Michigan student council president Chris Armstrong, the latest setback for Andrew Shirvell, the former Michigan assistant attorney general who was fired .
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Grievance officer: Sacked Assistant AG made ‘media spectacle of himself’
LANSING, Mich. — A grievance officer of the state Civil Service Commission on Tuesday ruled that former Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell had made a “media spectacle” of himself and the state’s attorney general’s office after publishing a blog attacking the former University of Michigan student body president for his alleged “radical homosexual agenda.”