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Juror Appreciation Month (2005)
 
 
Michigan Supreme Court Resolution
Resolution>>
 
Media Coverage
"Keep it simple: Let's not reform jury trials," Michigan Lawyers Weekly (Reprinted by permission of the Michigan Lawyers Weekly): July 4, 2005>>
 
"More than just a task; though it often causes disruptions at work and home, jury duty is serious business," The Daily Oakland Press: June 16, 2005>>
  
"Correction ('Jury reforms are needed' June 11, 2005)," The Monroe Evening News:
June 15, 2005>>
  
"Jury duty can create hardships, but the process is key to a free society; More than 7,000 people in Allegan and Ottawa counties serve," The Holland Sentinel:
June 12, 2005>>
 
"Jury reforms are needed," The Monroe Evening News: June 11, 2005>>
"New rules may ease jury-duty pain; State officials want to make the job clearer," The Times Herald/Port Huron: June 7, 2005>>
"Law Day Remarks of Chief Justice Clifford W. Taylor," Michigan Bar Journal: June 2005>>
 
"Juror Appreciation Month Postscript," Laches, Oakland County Bar Association:
June 2005>>
  
"Kids Celebrate Law Day," Michigan Bar Journal: June 2005>>
 
"Juror qualification questionnaires mailed to residents," The Midland Daily News:
May 24, 2005>>
 
"Jury duty should be savored, not shunned," Rochester Eccentric: May 22, 2005>>
"Jury service fundamental to American democracy," The Herald-Palladium:
May 16, 2005>
"Juries uniquely American," (fifth letter) The Midland Daily News: May 14, 2005>>
 
"Other countries look to U. S. trial by jury system, Archer says," The Midland Daily News: May 12, 2005>>
  

"Jury duty: Try it, you'll like it," The Daily Globe/Ironwood: May 9, 2005 (link no longer available)  
  

"Supreme Court justice delivers Law Day address; Helen Walton receives Liberty Bell Award," Oscoda Press: May 4, 2005>>
 
"LOCAL COMMENT: Smooth out jury duty with reforms," The Detroit Free Press:
May 2, 2005 (link no longer available)
 
Press Release: Michigan Supreme Court Proclaims May 2005 Juror Appreciation Month; Learning Center Law Day Event on May 3 Kicks off Court's Observance: April 29, 2005>>
  
"Area student essays celebrate Law Day; 'The American Jury: We the People in Action'," Lansing State Journal: April 29, 2005 (link no longer available)
 
"Other winning Law Day essays; Essays for second through fourth places," Lansing State Journal: April 28, 2005 (link no longer available)
 
Quotations
About the Jury: Famous Quotations>>
 
Speeches
Remarks of Chief Justice Clifford W. Taylor: April 25, 2005>>
 
Other Information and Links
American Bar Association, American Jury Initiative>>
American Bar Association, Law Day Information >>
Learning Center, Michigan Supreme Court, Law Day Information>>
   

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