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Tensions flare over Detroit ordinance to provide lower-income tenants with free legal representation

Detroit City Council is considering a measure that would provide lower-income residents with free legal representation when facing eviction. But Mayor Mike Duggan’s top attorney called the proposed ordinance “horrifying” and “unconstitutional,” and was ordered to leave the council table at a committee meeting after disrupting the hearing Thursday morning. At issue is a city […]

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