[nfbmi-talk] this is why the commission was destroyed

[Terry D. Eagle via nfbmi-talk]

Manderfield's award for the little guy is why the Snyder Administration and
Republican legislature removed cases against the State of Michigan, from the
Court of Claims in Ingham County Circuit Court, to the Republican ruled
Court of Appeals.  But no POLITICS there.  Imagine, now having to appeal a
case to the same court who originally adjudicated the case.  Doesn't pass
the Constitutional smell test, I believe.  Now we have a court of injustice
within a court of injustice.

In the Fellows Court of Appeals ruling, the Court stated Fellows was
attempting to distort the law of Public Act 260 of 1978.  Perhaps, yet the
real distortion was the State falsely arguing that the leases of the sighted
private businesses were original leases, and permitted to be grandfathered
to continue until the lease expired, at which time BEP would possess
exclusive legal rights to the food operations within the Cadillac building,
under Public Act 260 of 1978. .  In fact, the only distortion, and likely
perjury, is that the leases expired, and in fact were renewed  at least
once, after the state occupied the Cadillac Place building circa 2002 by
lease, with option to purchase the building.  In fact, this is a case
whereby Joe Pelle, James Hull, Constance, and the EOC once again screwed a
blind vendor out of income and a job, by negligently failing to stop the
renewal of the leases of the Subway and convenience store when the original
leases expired.  

Of course, the real moral of the outcome is that it pays, not costs, to be
affiliated with the NFB, its knowledge and experience with the law that
affects the rights and opportunities of blind persons. 

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And how much money was spent fighting this by the powers that be?


This is why the MCB was destroyed by those powers.

Michigan appeals court scratches $475K award for blind food vendor
Associated Press The Michigan appeals court has thrown out a decision
awarding $475,000

to a blind man who sold food and objected to competition at a state building
in Detroit. The court says the Michigan Commission for the Blind can't be

ordered to make financial awards. It reversed a decision by Ingham County
Judge Paula Manderfield. Ron Fellows had vending machines and sold coffee at

Cadillac Place from 2005 to 2008. He was unhappy because the state also
allowed non-blind businesses to operate in the building, including Subway.
Michigan

law says blind people shall operate snack shops in state buildings. But the
other businesses already had leases before the state moved into Cadillac
Place,

the former headquarters of General Motors. 

 
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