Mark Cavanagh
| Mark J. Cavanagh | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| Michigan Second District Court of Appeals | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | District 2 |
| Service: | |
| Active: | 1988-present |
| Personal History | |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Bachelors: | University of Michigan |
| Law School: | Detroit College of Law |
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Mark J. Cavanagh is a judge on the Michigan Second District Court of Appeals. He was elected to this position in 1988 and his current term expires January 1, 2015.[1]
Biography
Judge Cavanagh graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree and then earned his J.D. from the Detroit College of Law.[1]
Career
Prior to his election to the Court of Appeals, Judge Cavanagh worked as a special assistant attorney general, an assistant Wayne County prosecutor, and an attorney in private practice.[1]
Political affiliation and campaign contributions
Democrat[2]
Cavanagh dissents, argues the legislature changed the law
In April 2005, Judges Kathleen Jansen and Hilda Gage threw out a malpractice suit because, according to the National Notary Association, "the notarized affidavit of an out-of-state expert witness had not been authenticated by an out-of-state county clerk — as required by a 126-year-old law that had been ignored for decades." In June, because of over 1,000 pending malpractice cases that were reliant on the testimony of out-of-state medical experts, the court partially reversed itself, "ruling that the 1879 statute requiring authentication of out-of-state affidavits applied only to future cases, not to past ones." This June ruling was decided by a 2-1 vote, with Judge Mark Cavanagh dissenting. In his dissent, Cavanagh stated that "Michigan's 1970 enactment of the Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act (URAA) removed the need to authenticate any document notarized outside of Michigan."
See also
External links
- Court of Appeals: Mark Cavanagh
- Detroit News
- Michigan Court of Appeals
- National Notary Association
- OverLawyered.com
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