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Former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Held Liable for Targeting Gay Student
Loaded on June 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2013, page 43
On August 16, 2012, a federal jury in Detroit found Andrew Shirvell, a homophobic former Michigan Assistant Attorney General, guilty of stalking, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy in a civil lawsuit filed by Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan’s first openly gay student body president. ...
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Discrimination,
Gay/Lesbian.
Location:
Michigan.
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