Grievance Administrator v. Fieger
Michigan Supreme Court
1DissentCavanagh, J.
I would grant the motion for a stay of proceedings. As discussed in my dissent in Grievance Administrator v Fieger, 476 Mich 231 (2006), I believe that the majority violated attorney Geoffrey Fieger’s First Amendment rights when it held that his com*1230ments were not political speech protected by the United States and Michigan constitutions. Geoffrey Fieger is raising this issue in his petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, as well as raising the matter of how judicial disqualifications are handled by our Court. Because I believe that our current disqualification…
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