Judge slams anti-gay former state attorney (Andrew Shirvell) for trying to short-circuit lawsuit

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Source: Detroit Free Press

Judge slams anti-gay former state attorney for trying to short-circuit lawsuit
3:57 PM, Oct. 12, 2011
BY DAVID JESSE
DETROIT FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER

A federal judge knocked former assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell today for trying to find a shortcut way of wrapping up a lawsuit against him.

“You’re basically at the beginning of the lawsuit trying to get to the end,” U.S. District judge Arthur Tarnow said. “You’re wasting a lot of energy.”

Shirvell, who is representing himself, was in federal court trying get Tarnow to throw out the majority of a lawsuit filed against him by Christopher Armstrong, the former student body president of the University of Michigan.

In his suit, Armstrong claims that Shirvell, among other things, inflicted intentional emotional harm through his actions during Armstrong’s senior year, when Shirvell wrote a blog highly critical of Armstrong’s homosexual lifestyle, including accusing him of getting minors to drink alcohol and trying recruit others to become homosexuals.


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[Suich]

1. Good for Armstrong! I didn't know he had filed a lawsuit.

Shirvell's an idiot.

[lsewpershad]

2. May

Shirvell is all shirvelled up that's why he is such a prick...hehe.

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3. A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. True then,

true now. But in the case of this asshole, I'm delighted he decided to represent himself.