Gary Benjamin This is Me

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1. 1. www.faithfulreform.org

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   Published on: 1/27/2008   Last Visited: 1/27/2008

   Gary Benjamin is a staff attorney with Michigan Legal Services where he focuses on class actions in the area of health litigation, public policy advocacy for health care law, and mass transit advocacy. In private practice, he specializes in disability and discrimination claims. Gary also currently serves as a consultant for UHCAN Ohio's free care project. He is a leader in working on state-based health care reform through MichiUHCAN.

2. 2. A case against sprawl (Metro Times Detroit)

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   Published on: 8/18/2004   Last Visited: 6/19/2006

   Attorneys Gary Benjamin ...
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   Bernstein, who is both a plaintiff and co-counsel with Michigan Legal Services attorney Gary Benjamin, is framing the legal issues around the state Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, a provision of that law that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities, and two state constitutional guarantees: equal protection and the right to travel.
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   Bernstein and Benjamin assert that the reason for this disparity in voting strength between Detroit (along with its inner suburbs) and the surrounding communities is largely due to race.
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   Benjamin, the lead counsel, is a 53-year-old lawyer with Michigan Legal Services who was raised in Rockford, Ill., educated at Ohio Wesleyan University, and ended up in Detroit in 1972 as an organizer at the Merrill Palmer Institute, now a unit of Wayne State University. For more than 30 years Benjamin has been fighting on the side of the little guy, and was co-counsel in the famous eminent domain case to block General Motors from building the plant that ultimately wrecked the Poletown neighborhood. Benjamin and his colleagues lost in the state Supreme Court in 1981.
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   "The issues are pretty clear to me," Benjamin said in an interview.

3. 3. www.uhcanohio.org

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   Published on: 3/8/2007   Last Visited: 3/8/2007

   Gary Benjamin