Scheidler was ‘godfather of pro-life activism’ Joe Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago. Scheidler was ‘godfather of pro-life activism’ By Catholic News Service January 20, 2021
CHICAGO Joe Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago and one of the towering figures of the pro-life movement for decades, died of pneumonia Jan. 18 surrounded by his family at his home n Chicago. He was 93.
Widely known as the “godfather of pro-life activism,” Mr. Scheidler began his life’s work fighting abortion in 1973, shortly after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing it. He founded the league in 1980 to recruit and equip pro-life Americans to be a voice for unborn children in their own communities.
Jack s essay for January 24, 2014.
Thirteen years ago, a friend who runs a political PR firm urged me to meet a man he saw as a visionary politician who he was going to be elected mayor and transform Detroit.
His name was Kwame Kilpatrick. We all know how that turned out, but nobody did then. What was the same then and now, however, was Detroit’s need for jobs and money.
Over the years, I had learned one thing: If you want to jump-start an economy, what you need are immigrants. Driven, motivated, immigrants who want a better life.
An interview with U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade.
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NY Law Firm Cancels DirecTV Subscriber s NJ RICO Claim
Law360 (January 20, 2021, 1:40 PM EST) A New York law firm on Wednesday escaped a beauty salon owner s New Jersey Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claim over an alleged plot to extort money from her over purportedly unauthorized DirecTV services, with a New Jersey federal judge saying the woman didn t pay anything to the firm.
In granting summary judgment motions from Lonstein Law Office PC and related defendants, U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp found that plaintiff Angela Joaquin s claim fell short because she has not been injured under the NJRICO statute, noting that she neither made any payments to the defendants nor incurred any legal.