Jessica Litman of the WSU Law School is quoted in an article about the legal efforts of large inkjet cartridge manufacturers to halt competition from smaller companies that refill cartridges. The article examines complicated legal aspects of the case, including Lexmark's use of a license agreement on boxes containing its product. "The little print on packages doesn't look like a contract to me," Litman said. "It looks like a unilateral declaration. The appropriate way to analyze box-wrap is that if you buy a Lexmark cartridge from OfficeMax, you have a contact with OfficeMax, not Lexmark."

More than 200 Detroit and Wayne State University boosters gathered at the Guardian Building to celebrate the WSU Press publication of American City : Detroit Architecture, 1845-2005. Two photos of guests are featured with the story.

These duties will soon be in the hands of Meredith Gibbs, scheduled to arrive Jan. 3 from a job as chief of staff at Wayne State University in Detroit . A lawyer, Gibbs previously held several high-level administrative jobs in Maryland 's state government.

Contract talks between Wayne State University 's medical school and The Detroit Medical Center have broken down, primarily over financial issues, a conflict that has the university prepared to move its physicians to other hospitals, according to this report on page one of the business section. At issue is how much The DMC will pay WSU under the partnership, among other matters. The relationship between the medical center and the university involves research, physician practices and education of medical students and residents. There are no firm plans to resume negotiations. "Its at a crisis point, and they ought to get back to the table," said Paul Massaron of the WSU Board of Governors. With three months remaining on the current partnership contract, a quick resolution is important, observed Richard Bernstein of the WSU Board of Governors. "If there's no longer a contract, we're going to have to start negotiating with other hospitals," he said. The DMC is struggling to stay in the black after years of deficits. Wayne State , like all public universities in the state, has faced cuts and freezes in state funding. A photo of Bernstein accompanies the story, and a` sidebar provides brief facts about the WSU School of Medicine and The Detroit Medical Center.

A front-page story about barriers that make getting around difficult for physically handicapped persons leads with the example of a St. Clair County man who had difficulty accessing Wayne State's Bonstelle Theatre due to lack of an entrance ramp. Captions under two accompanying photos of the man in his motorized cart mention the nine-step entrance with no ramp at WSU's Bonstelle. The man said theatre employees had to carry him in to see a performance but were not available to assist him out of the theatre following the play. Jim Sears , associate vice president for facilities at the university noted that "It's a problem site," and pointed out that WSU does not own parking spots or land around the theater, so space is not available to make the building more handicapped accessible. Wayne State and the American Red Cross, owner of land adjoining the theatre, have discussed options but no agreement has been reached.

Marc Kruman, chairman of the History Department and director of the Center for the Study of Citizenship here, is quoted in an AP article that ran widely in newspapers across the country. The article examines measures being proposed by some members of Congress to oppose President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq and use of the Patriot Act to approve government actions that some see as an invasion of civil liberties. "Civil liberties are always most endangered during wartime," Kruman points out, "and there does seem to be a greater tendency to look for and find domestic and internal enemies during wartime."

An editorial urges contributions to the Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund and notes that the nonprofit organization, in addition to its traditional Christmas box donations to the needy, "provides several scholarships to Wayne State University ." This year, the Newsboys will provide a journalism scholarship named for Detroit News Production Editor Mike McCormick, who raised thousands of dollars for the charity.

An AP story about The Kalamazoo Promise, the scholarship program for public school students in that city that has gained widespread attention, mentions that Wayne State is offering qualified students a 50 percent discount on room and board.

An article about the moot court team from Cooley Law School winning the Region VI National Moot Court competition mentions that, among other schools, the team beat out others from Capital University Law School , Cleveland Marshall Law School and Wayne State University Law School .

A 12-year-old student in the Chippewa Valley School District has been charged under a state law that makes terrorist threats criminal offenses. If convicted she could end up under the supervision of the juvenile court until she turns 19. Robert Sedler of the WSU Law School said terrorism charges against children are rare. "But here I think it's really not 9/11, it's Columbine (that officials are concerned about)." The article reports that Sedler thinks the police acted appropriately in bringing charges against the girl, who claims the Internet threats were just a prank.

Fans of WDET-FM's former "adult alternative" music mix have been organizing a campaign to protest the station's decision to cut music programming during the day to make way for news/talk programming. The group has been "sending mass e-mails to newspapers and the president of Wayne State University , which owns the station," the article reports. Supporters of the "old" WDET format will gather at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Magic Stick on Woodward in Detroit to stage a protest rally.

Wayne State is mentioned in a letter to the editor by Larry Lawhorne, M.D., director of the Geriatric Education Center of Michigan. He points out that the center he directs is located at Michigan State University but also draws strength from members of its consortium, including the WSU Institute of Gerontology, three other universities, the Michigan Primary Care Association and the Michigan Dementia Coalition. The consortium provides multidisciplinary training for physicians, nurses, social workers rehabilitation therapists and other health care professionals. Lawhorne urges Congress not to reduce or eliminate funding of the 50 geriatric education centers across the country.

When a printer ran off 10,000 copies of Rosa Park's obituary and funeral program and sold them for $10 a piece, family members say they felt it cheapened her name and accomplishments. Now her nieces and nephews are asking for her will to be voided and to put one nephew in charge of her estate. The issue isn't an inheritance; it is control of the legal rights to her name and its use. Jessica Litman, who teaches intellectual property and copyright courses at Wayne State 's Law School , said Parks' name has little (monetary) value by itself. But with an aggressive enforcement campaign to get license fees for its use, it could be valuable. "Surely people will be interested in making motion pictures, biographies, documentaries about her," said Litman. "If someone could claim to own either that right, or the right to pictures of her, I can imagine that going for a tidy sum."

This article about temporary jobs being filled in connection with the Super Bowl in Detroit mentions that the Marriott Hotel-Renaissance Center , host hotel for the NFL, is working with Wayne State , Ferris State and Michigan State universities to find qualified people to beef up its staff during the days surrounding the event.

This all-news station interviewed law professor Robert Sedler regarding President Bush's use of the NSA for domestic spying under the Patriot Act. Sedler disagrees that the administration has emergency powers that permit the authorization of spying without obtaining a warrant.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has named members to the new Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board (SEIC) and to the Michigan Strategic Fund. President Irvin D. Reid is among several members appointed to the SEIC Board. The SEIC has responsibility for grants and loans made to support technology investments in the life sciences, alternative energy, advanced manufacturing and homeland security and defense.

The station reported that William Davidson would be receiving an honorary degree at Wayne State commencement ceremonies Thursday evening.

A new study conducted by professor Wei Du and colleagues at Wayne State University found that women and African Americans are least likely to enroll in treatment trials for lung cancer. The results will be published in the January issue of "Cancer," a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

Wayne State University has named Richard Gabrys interim dean of the School of Business Administration . He will replace Harvey Kahalas, who resigned early in November, effective at the end of this month. Kahalas, who has served as dean since 1997, plans to return to the university's faculty. With Gabrys serving in an interim capacity, WSU plans to conduct a national search for a permanent dean, Provost Nancy Barrett said in a statement.

It\'s part criminal investigation, part soap opera and part nagging political pain -- and so far nobody wants to be in charge of the probe into multimillionaire lawyer Geoffrey Fieger\'s secret funding of a 2004 ad campaign to unseat a state Supreme Court justice. In the latest twist in a case that includes teary confessions of infidelity, alleged blackmail and a hush-hush money pipeline, Fieger\'s lawyers asked Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday to appoint a special prosecutor to oversee the criminal investigation. The governor\'s office \"has the letter and we\'re reviewing it,\" Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said Wednesday, but Wayne State University law professor Robert Sedler said Granholm, a former attorney general herself, shouldn\'t get involved in the high-stakes political saga. \"It\'s not the governor\'s job,\" said Sedler.