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Hospice of Michigan, an end-of-life care provider, announced four new members of the board of directors for the organization’s foundation. The four additions with join the 22 currently on the board.
Jordan Carson is a co-host and director for WOOD-TV’s eightWest and director for WOTV4Women’s “Live Local Given Local.” She has been nominated for an Emmy and won the Gracie Allen Award for her documentary “Dying to Be Thin.”
Miller Johnson attorney Ryan Duffy joined the board, bringing his expertise as a member of the firm’s health care reimbursement practice group. Before law, he was a pilot and flight instructor for nine years in the United States Navy, earning a Naval Commendation medal for his efforts during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Miller Johnson welcomed senior counsel Hillary Scholten and associate attorney Julia Schall to its firm.
Scholten specializes in immigration law in the firm’s employment and labor group. She also leads its government affairs practice. She was the former 2020 Democratic Congressional nominee for Michigan’s 3rd District.
Prior to joining the congressional race, she was an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and later served as an attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center. While there, she defended the legal rights of immigrants and migrant farmworkers in Michigan through community organizing, political advocacy and federal litigation.
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March 4, 2021
Chief Judge Robert J. Jonker of the Western District of Michigan, who is overseeing a dispute between the inventors of a patent describing a method for securing a mechanical resuscitator to patients suffering cardiac arrest, has adopted the report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge Sally J. Berens dismissing one of three plaintiffs for failure to obtain representation by a licensed attorney. The court’s Tuesday decision dismisses the plaintiff NewAir Manufacturing, LLC, the assignee and owner of all rights and interests in the patent-in-suit.
By way of background, the patent’s inventors allege that Physio-Control, Inc., and the companies that bought and sold it over time, infringed upon the plaintiffs’ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) patent for nearly two decades after Medtronic misappropriated the trade secrets behind the invention. The plaintiffs’ second amended complaint, filed in July 2019, explains that the patent-in-s
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