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The state received hundreds of complaints from liquor retailers that could not stock their shelves.

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Executive Order 2020-143 was signed on July 1 as the state’s daily new COVID-19 cases were on the upswing and after Harper’s Restaurant and Brew Pub in East Lansing was linked to more than 100 confirmed cases of coronavirus.

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This week, drivers in Michigan will begin having options for Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage on auto insurance policies.

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Trials conducted via video conferencing software, where a witness is not present to be personally confronted by the Defendant, are not Constitutional. This does not resolve, however, the question of whether an impaneled jury, or a bench trial (no jury, just the judge) could sit for a trial by means of video conferencing software.

"The Court held that the right of confrontation requires face-to-face confrontation and is absolute for all testimonial evidence unless a witness is unavailable and the defendant had a prior opportunity for cross-examination. ....[E]xpense is not a sufficient justification to avoid face-to-face confrontation. Such a rule would potentially allow the prosecution to deprive a defendant of confrontation rights by, for instance, using out-of-state analysts to save money and then relying on cost-savings as a justification for not providing face-to-face testimony. Craig should be applied only to the specific facts it decided: a child victim may testify against the accused by means of one-way video testimony (or similar method) when the trial court has determined, consistently with statutory authorization, that such measures are necessary because the child requires special protection."

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Can your business obtain both the PPP loan AND the EIDL SBA loan and use them for separate items? Yes. However, it is tricky, complicated and confusing.

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